Simulation is perhaps the most cost-effective tool to evaluate the operation of a system under design. A flexible, easy to extend, fully object-oriented, and multilayered simulato...
Abbas Nayebi, Sina Meraji, Arash Shamaei, Hamid Sa...
Intuitively, aggressive work sharing among concurrent queries in a database system should always improve performance by eliminating redundant computation or data accesses. We show...
Ryan Johnson, Nikos Hardavellas, Ippokratis Pandis...
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
In order to search within corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most effective approach is to translate the submitted request into the required language(s). To...
As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...