Synchronization primitives for large shared-memory multiprocessors need to minimize latency and contention. Software queue-based locks address these goals, but suffer if a process...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
cal Technique for Process Abstraction Glenn Bruns Department of Computer Science University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK Abstract. With algebraic laws a process can be simpli...
For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
In applications such as vision and molecular biology, a common problem is to find the similar objects to a given target (according to some distance measure) in a large database. T...
Queries for composite events typically involve the four complementary dimensions of event data, event composition, relationships between events (esp. temporal and causal), and acc...