Many industrial real-time systems have evolved over a long period of time and were initially so simple that it was possible to predict consequences of adding new functionality by c...
Anders Wall, Johan Andersson, Jonas Neander, Chris...
This paper is concerned with rank aggregation, the task of combining the ranking results of individual rankers at meta-search. Previously, rank aggregation was performed mainly by...
Yu-Ting Liu, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Han...
This paper introduces a new way to provide strong atomicity in an implementation of transactional memory. Strong atomicity lets us offer clear semantics to programs, even if they ...
Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users’ privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing def...
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...