We consider negotiations between publishers and advertisers in a marketplace for ads. Motivated by Google’s online PrintAds system which is such a marketplace, we focus on the r...
Abstract. We describe Fastpath, a system for speculative parallelization of sequential programs on conventional multicore processors. Our system distinguishes between the lead thre...
Michael F. Spear, Kirk Kelsey, Tongxin Bai, Luke D...
Abstract. This paper presents a framework for supporting the optimization of Java programs using attributes in Java class files. We show how class file attributes may be used to ...
Abstract. We consider the scheduling problem of minimizing the average weighted job completion time on a single machine under precedence constraints. We show that this problem with...
Abstract. Current development processes for parallel software often fail to deliver portable software. This is because these processes usually require a tedious tuning phase to del...