Distributed Shortest-Positioning Time First (D-SPTF) is a request distribution protocol for decentralized systems of storage servers. D-SPTF exploits high-speed interconnects to d...
"Overlap" is the common term for cases where some markup structures do not nest neatly into others, such as when a quotation starts in the middle of one paragraph and en...
This article argues for the growing importance of quality metadata and the equation of that quality with precision and semantic grounding. Such semantic grounding requires metadat...
Instruction scheduling is a compiler optimization that can improve program speed, sometimes by 10% or more—but it can also be expensive. Furthermore, time spent optimizing is mo...
Self-adaptive software continually evaluates and modifies its own behavior to meet changing demands. One of the key issues in constructing such software is that of planning when a...