As XML has emerged as a data representation format and as great quantities of data have been stored in the XML format, XML document design has become an important and evident issu...
Predicting how well applications may run on modern systems is becoming increasingly challenging. It is no longer sufficient to look at number of floating point operations and commu...
Consider a multithreaded parallel application running inside a multicore virtual machine context that is itself hosted on a multi-socket multicore physical machine. How should the...
Material design is the process by which artists specify the reflectance
properties of a surface, such as its diffuse color and specular
roughness. We present a user study to eval...
Compression in column-oriented databases has been proven to offer both performance enhancements and reductions in storage consumption. This is especially true for read access as c...