Application performance tuning is a complex process that requires assembling various types of information and correlating it with source code to pinpoint the causes of performance...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B....
When the Asynchronous Method Invocation (AMI) model was introduced into the CORBA specification, client applications benefited from the ability to invoke nonblocking two-way reque...
Darrell Brunsch, Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
Signed conjunctive normal form (signed CNF) is a classical conjunctive clause form using a generalized notion of literal, called signed atom. A signed atom is an expression of the...