—Countless challenges to preserving a user’s location privacy exist and have become more important than ever before with the proliferation of handheld devices and the pervasive...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
To enable optimizations in memory access behavior of high performance applications, cache monitoring is a crucial process. Simulation of cache hardware is needed in order to allow...
A student learning how to program learns best when the programming language and programming environment cater to her specific needs. These needs are different from the requirement...
—Current general-purpose memory allocators do not provide sufficient speed or flexibility for modern highperformance applications. To optimize metrics like performance, memory us...