New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use of collective file-system operations, in which ...
Scalable busy-wait synchronization algorithms are essential for achieving good parallel program performance on large scale multiprocessors. Such algorithms include mutual exclusio...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
MAVIS is a dataflow visual languagefor computer vision and image processing. It features a high degree of `liveness' and compliance with user directives, providing ajexible e...
Thomas J. Olson, Nicholas G. Klop, Mark R. Hyett, ...
Decentralized Markov Decision Processes are a powerful general model of decentralized, cooperative multi-agent problem solving. The high complexity of the general problem leads to...