Applications must scale well to make efficient use of even medium-scale parallel systems. Because scaling problems are often difficult to diagnose, there is a critical need for sc...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
Alex Skaletsky, Tevi Devor, Nadav Chachmon, Robert...
Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies have led to the high-throughput production of sequence data (reads) at low cost. However, these reads are significantly shorter...
The ability to find tables and extract information from them is a necessary component of data mining, question answering, and other information retrieval tasks. Documents often c...
David Pinto, Andrew McCallum, Xing Wei, W. Bruce C...
Software agents are a major innovation in how people use information systems, and they have parallels with how Decision Support Systems (DSS) support human decision-making. A DSS ...