As chip multiprocessors (CMPs) become increasingly mainstream, architects have likewise become more interested in how best to share a cache hierarchy among multiple simultaneous t...
Lisa R. Hsu, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ravishankar R. I...
This paper presents an automated performance tuning solution, which partitions a program into a number of tuning sections and finds the best combination of compiler options for e...
Effective testing of safety-critical real-time embedded software is difficult and expensive. Many companies are hesitant about the cost of formalized criteria-based testing and a...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
In electronic marketplaces populated by self-interested agents, buyer agents would benefit by modeling the reputation of seller agents, in order to make effective decisions abou...