The management of networks has often been ignored in network-based computing systems due to the difficulty of estimating application programs' network latency and bandwidth r...
High-level power design presents a complex, multiobjective problem that involves the simultaneous optimisation of competing criteria such as speed, area and power. It is difficult...
Program errors are hard to find because of the cause-effect gap between the time when an error occurs and the time when the error becomes apparent to the programmer. Although debu...
Legacy systems are usually critical to the business in which they operate, but the costs of running them are often not justifiable. Determining whether such systems are worth keep...
As databases get widely deployed, it becomes increasingly important to reduce the overhead of database administration. An important aspect of data administration that critically i...