Abstract. Multimedia servers are increasingly employing parallel systems for the retrieval, scheduling and delivery of streaming multimedia content. However, given non-zero blockin...
Recent advances in commodity network interface technology enable scientists and engineers to build clusters of workstations or PCs to execute parallel applications. However, raw-h...
A number of prioritized variants of Reiter’s default logic have been described in the literature. In this paper, we introduce two natural principles for preference handling and s...
A rather recent approach in programming parallel and distributed systems is that of coordination models and languages. Coordination programming enjoys a number of advantages such a...
Loop fusion is important to optimizing compilers because it is an important tool in managing the memory hierarchy. By fusing loops that use the same data elements, we can reduce t...