Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
This paper describes some of our efforts in infusing the critical thinking skill of comparing and contrasting into a course on data structures. Comparing and contrasting is the pr...
M. R. K. Krishna Rao, Muhammad Shafique, Kanaan A....
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
Let G = (V, E) be any undirected graph on V vertices and E edges. A path P between any two vertices u, v ∈ V is said to be t-approximate shortest path if its length is at most t ...