Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
Task-selection policies are critical to the performance of any architecture that uses speculation to extract parallel tasks from a sequential thread. This paper demonstrates that ...
Mayank Agarwal, Kshitiz Malik, Kevin M. Woley, Sam...
Memory leaks and memory corruption are two major forms of software bugs that severely threaten system availability and security. According to the US-CERT Vulnerability Notes Datab...
— Over the past 50 years, much attention has been given to the Prisoner’s Dilemma as a metaphor for problems surrounding the evolution and maintenance of cooperative and altrui...
Reasoning about agents that we observe in the world is challenging. Our available information is often limited to observations of the agent’s external behavior in the past and p...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...