As modern multi-tier systems are becoming increasingly large and complex, it becomes more difficult for system analysts to understand the overall behavior of the system, and diag...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Reuse distance analysis has been proved promising in evaluating and predicting data locality for programs written in Fortran or C/C++. But its effect has not been examined for ap...
User interruptability has become an important topic of study in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, automatically determining the availability of users is still problematic....
Manual generation of a book inventory is time-consuming and tedious, while deployment of barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) management systems is costly and afforda...
David M. Chen, Sam S. Tsai, Bernd Girod, Cheng-Hsi...