Regulations require businesses to archive many electronic documents for extended periods of time. Given the sheer volume of documents and the response time requirements, documents...
Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, Windsor W. Hsu
For decades now, the notion of “performance” has been synonymous with “speed” (as measured in FLOPS, short for floating-point operations per second). Unfortunately, this ...
Effective use of communication networks is critical to the performance and scalability of parallel applications. Partitioned Global Address Space languages like UPC bring the pro...
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...
Multimedia communication is a part of everyday life and its appearance in computer applications is increasing in frequency and diversity. Intelligent or knowledge based computer su...
Mark T. Maybury, Oliviero Stock, Wolfgang Wahlster