Contextual advertising (also called content match) refers to the placement of small textual ads within the content of a generic web page. It has become a significant source of rev...
Xuerui Wang, Andrei Z. Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Va...
The basic system timer facilities used by applications and OS kernels for scheduling timeouts and periodic activities have remained largely unchanged for decades, while hardware a...
Simon Peter, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Roscoe, Paul ...
To ensure the consistency of database subsystems involved in wireless communication systems, appropriate scheduled maintenance policies are necessary. However, the short-persisten...
Amine Chohra, Felicita Di Giandomenico, Stefano Po...
Abstract— For resource management in Grid environments, advance reservations turned out to be very useful and hence are supported by a variety of Grid toolkits. However, failure ...
We address the problem of minimizing power consumption in behavioral synthesis of data-dominated circuits. The complex nature of power as a cost function implies that the effects ...