One model of multithreading gaining popularity on multiprocessor systems is the message-driven model of computation. The message-driven model is a reactive model in which an arriv...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
The current technologies have made it possible to execute parallel applications across heterogeneous platforms. However, the performance models available do not provide adequate m...
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Nader Mohamed, Hong Jiang, Dav...
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...
Abstract. Event Processing (EP) systems are being progressively used in business critical applications in domains such as algorithmic trading, supply chain management, production m...
Marcelo R. N. Mendes, Pedro Bizarro, Paulo Marques