The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
Data prefetching has been widely used in the past as a technique for hiding memory access latencies. However, data prefetching in multi-threaded applications running on chip multi...
Dhruva Chakrabarti, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Mustafa Ka...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are composed of a large number of heterogeneous nodes called sensors and actors. The collaborative operation of sensors enables the dist...
Tommaso Melodia, Dario Pompili, Vehbi C. Gungor, I...