Abstract— The well-known PASTA (“Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages”) property states that, under very general conditions, the fraction of Poisson arrivals that observe an un...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Cons...
In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
This paper focuses on competitive function evaluation in the context of computing with priced information. A function f is given together with a cost cx for each variable x of f. ...
This paper details a research methodology that emerged during an inquiry into game design aimed at promoting conceptual learning in physics. The methodology, Research as DesignDes...
We compare two algorithms for sorting out-of-core data on a distributed-memory cluster. One algorithm, Csort, is a 3-pass oblivious algorithm. The other, Dsort, makes three passes...