Abstract— Many asynchronous designs are naturally specified and implemented hierarchically as an interconnection of separate asynchronous modules that operate concurrently and c...
The performance of a database system depends strongly on the layout of database objects, such as indexes or tables, onto the underlying storage devices. A good layout will both ba...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a modelling concept and structuring principle for rule-based systems the semantics of which is not restricted to a sequential behavior, but ca...
Orthogonally persistent Java combines the power of abstraction over persistence with Java's rich programming environment. In this paper we report our experience in designing a...
Alonso Marquez, Stephen Blackburn, Gavin Mercer, J...