An optimal prefetching and I/O scheduling algorithm L-OPT, for parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references is presented. The algorithm uses knowledge of the n...
Abstract--The particle swarm is an algorithm for finding optimal regions of complex search spaces through the interaction of individuals in a population of particles. Even though t...
An increasing number of applications use XML data published from relational databases. For speed and convenience, such applications routinely cache this XML data locally and acces...
Philip Bohannon, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, P....
Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy. In which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the pro...
The M/G/K queueing system is one of the oldest model for multi-server systems, and has been the topic of performance papers for almost half a century. However, even now, only coar...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, J. G. Dai, Bert Z...