We present the architecture and a performance assessment of an extensible query optimizer written in Venus. Venus is a general-purpose active-database rule language embedded in C+...
This paper questions the status quo regarding Security Management (SM) tools that function in an isolated, monolithic fashion. People work best by interacting with others and with...
Supercomputer performance is highly dependent on its interconnection subsystem design. In this paper we study how di erent architectural approaches for router design impact into s...
The Converse run-time framework was designed with dual objectives: that of supporting quick development of portable run-time systems for new parallel programming paradigms, and tha...
Increasingly, new applications are being built by composing existing software components rather than by coding a system from scratch. Using this approach, applications can be buil...