In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identiļ¬ers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identiļ¬...
The prominent role of the memory hierarchy as one of the major bottlenecks in achieving good program performance has motivated the search for ways of capturing the memory performa...
Ricardo Portillo, Diana Villa, Patricia J. Teller,...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
We show that the greedy Highest Density First (HDF) algorithm is (1+ )-speed O(1)-competitive for the problem of minimizing the p norms of weighted flow time on m identical machin...
There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...