We consider human performance on an optimal stopping problem where people are presented with a list of numbers independently chosen from a uniform distribution. People are told ho...
OpenMP has gained wide popularity as an API for parallel programming on shared memory and distributed shared memory platforms. Despite its broad availability, there remains a need ...
Chunhua Liao, Oscar Hernandez, Barbara M. Chapman,...
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
As a result of the changing scope of data management towards the management of highly distributed systems and applications, integration processes have gained in imporuch integrati...
Data locality is critical to achievinghigh performance on large-scale parallel machines. Non-local data accesses result in communication that can greatly impact performance. Thus ...