Policy-based management (PBM) aims to provide flexibility in the management of resources so as to readily reflect changing business goals. However, as organizations increasingly u...
Abstract— Randomized motion planning techniques are responsible for many of the recent successes in robot control. However, most motion planning algorithms assume perfect and com...
The availability of inexpensive and powerful graphics cards as well as fast Internet connections make Networked Virtual Environments viable for millions of users and many new appl...
In this paper we investigate techniques that allow for on-line updates to columnar databases, leaving intact their high read-only performance. Rather than keeping differential str...
Various studies have shown that OS jitter can degrade parallel program performance considerably at large processor counts. Most sources of system jitter fall broadly into 5 catego...