It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
— Smart cards are widely known for their tamper resistance, but only contain a small amount of memory. Though very small, this memory often contains highly valuable information (...
Michael Neve, Eric Peeters, David Samyde, Jean-Jac...
Multi-core processors are planned for virtually all next-generation HPC systems. In a preliminary evaluation of AMD Opteron Dual-Core processor systems, we investigated the scaling...
Sadaf R. Alam, Richard F. Barrett, Jeffery A. Kueh...
The performance of automatic memory management may be improved if the policies used in allocating and collecting objects had knowledge of the lifetimes of objects. To date, approa...