A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
A collaborative filtering system at an e-commerce site or similar service uses data about aggregate user behavior to make recommendations tailored to specific user interests. We d...
Power transformers' failures carry great costs to electric companies since they need resources to recover from them and to perform periodical maintenance. To avoid this probl...
One of the essential features in modern computer systems is context switching, which allows multiple threads of execution to time-share a limited number of processors. While very ...
Fang Liu, Fei Guo, Yan Solihin, Seongbeom Kim, Abd...
We collected packet traces from Second Life client sessions and analyzed the packet contents. We observed that textures constitute a majority of the network traffic. We further c...