Leakage current is a key factor in IC power consumption even in the active operating mode. We investigate the simultaneous optimization of gate size and threshold voltage to reduc...
Parallel programs are difficult to write, test, and debug. This thesis explores how programmers build mental models about parallel programs, and demonstrates, through user evaluat...
Web Clustering is useful for several activities in the WWW, from automatically building web directories to improve retrieval performance. Nevertheless, due to the huge size of the...
Besides being adopted as the new interchange format for the Internet, XML is finding increasing acceptance as a native data repository language. In order to make XML repositories ...
The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...