In this paper, we describe the challenges of prototyping a reference application on System S, a distributed stream processing middleware under development at IBM Research. With a ...
Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Bugra Gedik, Kirsten Hi...
Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
Abstract. The success of Internet telephony services like Skype illustrates the feasibility of utilizing unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as an economical platform for supp...
Before an application modelled as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is executed on a heterogeneous system, a DAG mapping policy is often enacted. After mapping, the tasks (in the DAG...
Ligang He, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, D...
Object localization has applications in many areas of engineering and science. The goal is to spatially locate an arbitrarily-shaped object. In many applications, it is desirable ...