The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to international standards via telephone modem, radio and satel...
This paper introduces a new approach to database disk buffering, called the LRU–K method. The basic idea of LRU–K is to keep track of the times of the last K references to pop...
Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Neil, Gerhard We...
Most complexity measures for concurrent algorithms for asynchronous shared-memory architectures focus on process steps and memory consumption. In practice, however, performance of ...
In the A-calculus, there is a standard notion of what terms should be considered to be "undefined": the unsolvable terms. There are various equivalent characterisations o...
Zena M. Ariola, Richard Kennaway, Jan Willem Klop,...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...