Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
In the past, most early hands-on users of interactive software in organizations were individual contributors. Managers as early adopters is a new trend with significant implicatio...
Virtually all proposals for querying XML include a class of query we term "containment queries". It is also clear that in the foreseeable future, a substantial amount of...
Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, ...
Scratchpads have been widely proposed as an alternative to caches for embedded systems. Advantages of scratchpads include reduced energy consumption in comparison to a cache and a...
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) is a trend in VLSI design, since they minimize the “design crisis” (gap between silicon technology and actual SoC design capacity) and ...