Virtual machine service threads can perform many tasks in parallel with program execution such as garbage collection, dynamic compilation, and profile collection and analysis. Har...
Interactive multimediaapplicationsrequire fast response time. Traditional disk scheduling schemes can incur high latencies, and caching data in memory to reduce latency is usually...
Theoretical and empirical work on the geometry of environmental knowledge is discussed. Certain patterns of distanc.e and directional estimates collected from humans have been inte...
The management and query processing of one dimensional intervals is a special case of extended object handling. One dimensional intervals play an important role in temporal databa...
Affordable, fast computers with large memories have lessened the demand for program efficiency, but applications such as browsing and searching very large databases often have rat...