Queries, or calls to stored procedures/user-defined functions are often invoked multiple times, either from within a loop in an application program, or from the where/select claus...
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...
The incorporation of context-awareness capabilities into pervasive applications allows them to leverage contextual information to provide additional services while maintaining an ...
Zhimin Wang, Sebastian G. Elbaum, David S. Rosenbl...
Application programming interfaces (APIs) inform application developers as to the functionality provided by a library and how to interact with it. APIs are a double-edged sword: i...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Such a skeleton ...