This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
—In this paper we extend the class of MAP queueing networks to include blocking models, which are useful to describe the performance of service instances which have a limited con...
Vittoria de Nitto Persone, Giuliano Casale, Evgeni...
Abstract. Automatic structuring is one means to ease access to document collections, be it for organization or for exploration. Of even greater help would be a presentation that ad...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
A recommender system has an obvious appeal in an environment where the amount of on-line information vastly outstrips any individual’s capability to survey. Music recommendation...