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CPE
1998
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
On Choosing a Task Assignment Policy for a Distributed Server System
We consider a distributed server system model and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our model each host processes tasks in First-Come-First-Serve ord...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Mark Crovella, Cristina D. Mur...
VLDB
1998
ACM
91views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
15 years 3 months ago
Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet
Text data in the Internet can be partitioned into many databases naturally. Efficient retrieval of desired data can be achieved if we can accurately predict the usefulness of each...
Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong ...
ISLPED
1997
ACM
108views Hardware» more  ISLPED 1997»
15 years 3 months ago
Techniques for low energy software
The energy consumption of a system depends upon the hardware and software component of a system. Since it is the software which drives the hardware in most systems, decisions take...
Huzefa Mehta, Robert Michael Owens, Mary Jane Irwi...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
132views Database» more  SIGMOD 1996»
15 years 3 months ago
Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...
PLDI
1994
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Memory Access Coalescing: A technique for Eliminating Redundant memory Accesses
As microprocessor speeds increase, memory bandwidth is increasing y the performance bottleneck for microprocessors. This has occurred because innovation and technological improvem...
Jack W. Davidson, Sanjay Jinturkar