Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
We study the issue of performance prediction on the SGIPower Challenge, a typical SMP. On such a platform, the cost of memory accesses depends on their locality and on contention ...
Nancy M. Amato, Jack Perdue, Mark M. Mathis, Andre...
Web Directories have emerged as an alternative to the Search Engines for locating information on the Web. Typically, Web Directories rely on humans putting in significant time and ...
Sofia Stamou, Alexandros Ntoulas, Vlassis Krikos, ...
We propose a radical approach to relational query processing that aims at automatically and consistently achieving a good performance on any memory hierarchy. We believe this auto...
Context-aware applications pose new challenges, including a need for new computational models, uncertainty management, and efficient optimization under uncertainty. Uncertainty c...
Jennifer L. Wong, Weiping Liao, Fei Li, Lei He, Mi...