Partitioning data parallel computations across a network of heterogeneous workstations is a dificult problem for the user: We have developed a runtime partitioning methodfor choos...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
Abstract. A computer disk drive's motor speed varies slightly but irregularly, principally because of air turbulence inside the disk's enclosure. The unpredictability of ...
For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...
One of the most novel features in the functional programming language Haskell is the system of type classes used to support a combination of overloading and polymorphism. Current ...