The pervasive use of pointers with complicated patterns in C programs often constrains compiler alias analysis to yield conservative register allocation and promotion. Speculative...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
While code understanding is the primary program comprehension activity, it is quite challenging to recognize the application requirements from code, since they have usually been o...
Mohammad El-Ramly, Eleni Stroulia, Paul G. Sorenso...
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...
The evolution of software systems over many years often leads to unnecessarily complex and in exible designs which in turn lead to a huge amount of e ort for enhancements and main...