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MMS
2006
13 years 4 months ago
Update Relevance under the Multiset Semantics of RDBMS
: In order to reduce transmission costs and response time, mobile clients typically cache data locally. But, avoiding the usage of outdated data and maintaining the consistency of ...
Hagen Höpfner
INFSOF
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Scenario-based multitasking for real-time object-oriented models
Contemporary embedded systems quite often employ extremely complicated software consisting of a number of interrelated components, and this has made object-oriented design methodo...
Saehwa Kim, Jiyong Park, Seongsoo Hong
CIDR
2009
125views Algorithms» more  CIDR 2009»
13 years 5 months ago
Towards Eco-friendly Database Management Systems
Database management systems (DBMSs) have largely ignored the task of managing the energy consumed during query processing. Both economical and environmental factors now require th...
Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
SLA-Driven Dynamic Resource Management for Multi-tier Web Applications in a Cloud
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera
AAAI
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Termination Analysis of OPS5 Expert Systems
Bounded response time is an important requirement when rule-based expert systems are used in real-time applications. In the case the rule-based system cannot terminate in bounded ...
Hsiu-yen Tsai, Albert Mo Kim Cheng
OSDI
2000
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Taming the Memory Hogs: Using Compiler-Inserted Releases to Manage Physical Memory Intelligently
Out-of-core applications consume physical resources at a rapid rate, causing interactive applications sharing the same machine to exhibit poor response times. This behavior is the...
Angela Demke Brown, Todd C. Mowry
MASCOTS
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Geographic Load Balancing for Scalable Distributed Web Systems
Users of highly popular Web sites may experience long delays when accessing information. Upgrading content site infrastructure from a single node to a locally distributed Web clus...
Valeria Cardellini, Michele Colajanni, Philip S. Y...
MASCOTS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
A Computational Complexity-Aware Model for Performance Analysis of Software Servers
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
Vipul Mathur, Varsha Apte
ASMTA
2008
Springer
103views Mathematics» more  ASMTA 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
A Response Time Distribution Model for Zoned RAID
Abstract. RAID systems are widely deployed, both as standalone storage solutions and as the building blocks of modern virtualised storage platforms. An accurate model of RAID syste...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
SIGMOD
1991
ACM
81views Database» more  SIGMOD 1991»
13 years 8 months ago
Multi-Disk B-trees
In this paper, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 we consider how to exploit multiple disks to improve the performance of B-tree ...
Bernhard Seeger, Per-Åke Larson