A common requirement of many scientific applications is the ability to process queries involving expensive predicates corresponding to user programs. Optimizing such queries is ha...
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez
Declarative models play an important role in most software design activities, by allowing designs to be constructed that selectively abstract over complex implementation details. ...
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Tony Griffiths, Norman W....
The use of Virtual Environments as a user interface can be important for certain types of applications, especially in the fields of education and entertainment. These synthetic wo...
Program execution speed on modern computers is sensitive, by a factor of two or more, to the order in which instructions are presented to the processor. To realize potential execu...
J. Eliot B. Moss, Paul E. Utgoff, John Cavazos, Do...
The events occurring in the execution of a distributed or parallel application are related by a partial, rather than a total, order. We have developed prototype software that coll...