For decades, the design and implementation of arrays in programming languages has reflected a natural tension between productivity and performance. Recently introduced HPCS langua...
The popularity of mobile devices has propelled the development of many useful location-aware applications. However, the heterogeneity of mobile devices necessitates that the softw...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...
The continuing frequency and seriousness of security incidents underlines the importance of application security. Decentralized information flow control (DIFC), a promising tool ...