Programs that use multi-threaded concurrency are known to be difficult to design. Moreover, research in computer-science education suggests that concurrency and synchronization co...
Modern chip multiprocessors (CMPs) are designed to exploit both instruction-level parallelism (ILP) within processors and thread-level parallelism (TLP) within and across processo...
Changkyu Kim, Simha Sethumadhavan, M. S. Govindan,...
This paper presents the RAM Enhanced Disk Cache Project, REDCAP, a new cache of disk blocks which reduces the read I/O time by using a small portion of the main memory. The essent...
—The fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence are converging toward the vision of smart robotic environments, in which tasks are performed via the cooperation of m...
—Increasingly many wireless sensor network deployments are using harvested environmental energy to extend system lifetime. Because the temporal profiles of such energy sources e...
Christopher M. Vigorito, Deepak Ganesan, Andrew G....