Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on application execution through hardware counters. In this paper, we explore the utilization of these sta...
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chuanpeng...
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
The technology for building large knowledge bases (KBs) is yet to witness a breakthrough so that a KB can be constructed by the assembly of prefabricated knowledge components. Kno...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, P...
This paper provides an account of the representation of defaults in Cyc and their semantics in terms of first order logic with reification. Default reasoning is a complex thing, a...
Background: In the area of protein structure prediction, recently a lot of effort has gone into the development of Model Quality Assessment Programs (MQAPs). MQAPs distinguish hig...
Ingolf Sommer, Stefano Toppo, Oliver Sander, Thoma...