The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
— Modern CPUs operate at GHz frequencies, but the latencies of memory accesses are still relatively large, in the order of hundreds of cycles. Deeper cache hierarchies with large...
Konrad Malkowski, Greg M. Link, Padma Raghavan, Ma...
Abstract. Time and timing features are an important aspect of modern electronic systems, often of embedded nature. We argue here that in early design phases, time is often of logic...
Abstract. Several tools have been developed for the estimation of software reliability. However, they are highly specialized in the approaches they implement and the particular pha...
Similarity search in metric spaces is a general paradigm that can be used in several application fields. It can also be effectively exploited in content-based image retrieval syst...