Transactions ensure simple and correct handling of concurrency and failures but are often considered too expensive for use in file systems. This paper argues that performance is ...
Models of software systems are built in Z and VDM using partial functions between sets and certain operations on these partial functions : extension ( ), restriction ( ), removal ...
Current operating systems offer poor performance when a numeric application's working set does not fit in main memory. As a result, programmers who wish to solve "out-of...
Research can rarely be performed on large-scale, distributed systems at the level of thousands of workstations. In this paper, we describe the motivating constraints, design princ...