The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
Conventional wisdom has been that the performance limitations in the current Internet lie at the edges of the network – i.e last mile connectivity to users, or access links of s...
Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
We present an application of multi-objective evolutionary optimization of feed-forward neural networks (NN) to two real world problems, car and face classification. The possibly co...
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Louis Alex E...