: Many industries are shifting from mass production to mass customization, which demands quick response to the needs of individual customers with high quality and low costs. The de...
Users’ critiques to the current recommendation form a crucial feedback mechanism for refining their preference models and improving a system’s accuracy in recommendations that ...
This paper presents a model and implementation techniques for speeding up constraint propagation. Two fundamental approaches to improving constraint propagation are explored: keepi...
This paper describes our experience with developing a product line for middleware-based versioning systems. We perform a detailed domain analysis and define a DSL for configuring i...
Speculative pre-execution is a promising prefetching technique which uses an auxiliary assisting thread in addition to the main program flow. A prefetching thread (p-thread), whic...