Abstract. Delimited continuations are the meanings of delimited evaluation contexts in programming languages. We show they offer a uniform view of many scenarios that arise in sys...
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
We present a framework which allows the user to access and manipulate data uniformly, regardless of whether it resides in a database or in the file system (or in both). A key issu...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a form-based handprint recognition system for reading information written on forms. This public domain soft...
Integration--supporting multiple application classes with heterogeneous requirements--is an emerging trend in networks, file systems, and operating systems. In this paper, we eval...