Gauge Blocks – A Zombie Technology

Supplement to ZombieMemory: Extending Memory Lifetime by Reviving Dead Blocks

Zombie is an endurance management framework that enables a variety of error correction mechanisms to extend the lifetimes of memories that suffer from in-the-field bit failures, such as wearout in phase-change memory (PCM). Zombie supports both single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell (MLC) variants. It extends the lifetime of blocks in working memory pages (primary blocks) by pairing them ...

Let’s Raise a Half-Full Glass to the Zombie NHS: A Response to Recent Commentaries

ZLOC: Detection of Zombie Users in Online Social Networks Using Location Information

Online social networks serve as a promising platform for social eliteness and financial gain. With such a promise or dream, zombie accounts, behind which stand no real users, become prevalent. The detection of such accounts has been games of cat and mouse, with more and more sophisticated methods used by zombie account managers. In this work, we propose a new zombie account detection technique ...

The Effect of Gauge Measurement Capability and Dependency Measure of Process Variables on the MCp

It has been proved that process capability indices provide very efficient measures of the capability of processes from many different perspectives. These indices have been widely used in the manufacturing industry for measuring process reproduction capability according to manufacturing specifications. In the past few years, univariate capability indices have been introduced and used to characte...

In the Hands of Zombies

A ZOMBIE IS quite simply a physical and functional duplicate of you or me, who differs from us only in that she does not possess consciousness or phenomenological experience. 1 In other words, we know what it is to feel pain, happiness, and anger; a zombie does not: she completely lacks such experience. Many philosophers have recently befriended zombies. That is to say, these philosophers belie...