Abstract. Software systems obey the 80/20 rule: aggressively optimizing a vital few execution paths yields large speedups. However, finding the vital few paths can be difficult, e...
We have implemented a prototype distributed system for managing and accessing a digital library of geospatial imagery over a wide-area network. The system conforms to a subset of ...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, K. E. Kerry...
Supporting semantic queries in relational databases is essential to many advanced applications. Recently, with the increasing use of ontology in various applications, the need for...
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on application execution through hardware counters. In this paper, we explore the utilization of these sta...
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chuanpeng...
Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...