Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Estimating the Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) of a program on a given processor is important for the schedulability analysis of real-time systems. WCET analysis techniques typic...
We present a resource management algorithm based upon guided “walks” within a system state space. Walks are guided via simple predictions of optimum behavior whose accuracy inc...
With the advent of e-Commerce, enterprises can no longer rely on static business strategies. They have to be able to cope in dynamic and uncertain electronic environments, especia...
Although optimizations have been applied for a number of years to improve the performance of software, problems that have been long-standing remain, which include knowing what opt...