Shared-memory multiprocessors are frequently used in a timesharing style with multiple parallel applications executing at the same time. In such an environment, where the machine ...
The workflow process is often executed in a dynamic environment. This dynamic is classified in several aspects. For this reason, several researches try to give workflow architectur...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
This paper presents ARC (Adaptive Range Control), a communication range control mechanism using directional antennas to be implemented across multiple layers. ARC uses directional...
The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...