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CASCON
1996
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Modeling on-line rebalancing with priorities and executing on parallel database systems
Because changes to the database (DB) and workload occur during a DB system's lifetime, the physical DB design must evolve to sustain good performance. These changes are carri...
Daniel C. Zilio
CASCON
1996
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Broadband application transport service and management
Multimedia applications using broadband networking technologies (for example, Asynchronous Transfer Mode) often require services not provided by standard transport layer middlewar...
Zhenjun Zhu, Gerald A. Winters, Patrick Martin, Hu...
CASCON
1996
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A memory-adaptive sort (MASORT) for database systems
A memory-adaptive sort is able to dynamically change the amount of memory used during sorting. The method described in this paper adjusts memory usage according to input size and ...
Weiye Zhang, Per-Åke Larson
CASCON
1996
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Live WWW and its agents: the CAS-LWWW project
This paper proposes the idea of vision agents over Internet, outlines the performance models of Live WWW with agents, and describes an object search agent and its communications w...
Yiming Ye, John K. Tsotsos, Karen Bennet
CASCON
1996
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A hybrid process for recovering software architecture
A large portion of the software used in industry today is legacy software. Legacy systems often evolve into dicult to maintain systems whose original design has been lost or else ...
Vassilios Tzerpos, Richard C. Holt
CASCON
1996
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Data locality sensitivity of multithreaded computations on a distributed-memory multiprocessor
The locality of the data in parallel programs is known to have a strong impact on the performance of distributed-memory multiprocessor systems. The worse the locality in access pa...
Xinmin Tian, Shashank S. Nemawarkar, Guang R. Gao,...
CASCON
1996
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Measurements of DCE RPC performance in an OS/2 environment
Developing and managing applications for environments consisting of independently con gured computing systems interoperating acrossnetwork connections is of considerable interest ...
Ying Sun, Rick Bunt, Gregory M. Oster
CASCON
1996
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Views on template-based parallel programming
For almost a decade we have been working at developing and using template-based models for coarse-grained parallel computing. Our initial system, FrameWorks, was positively receiv...
Ajit Singh, Jonathan Schaeffer, Duane Szafron
CASCON
1996
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Inter-class testing of O-O software in the presence of polymorphism
This paper1 describes an algorithm for testing polymorphic interactions between classes in object-oriented (O-O) software. We propose an Augmented Object Relationship Diagram (AOR...
Amit M. Paradkar
CASCON
1996
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Communication costs in code and design reviews: an empirical study
Software development managers strive to control all of the factors that might impact the success of their projects. However, not all of these factors have been identified, much le...
Carolyn B. Seaman