Many large-scale distributed systems have been built with great complexity to run Internet services. Due to the heterogeneity and dynamics of complex systems, it is very difficult ...
Despite flash memory’s promise, it suffers from many idiosyncrasies such as limited durability, data integrity problems, and asymmetry in operation granularity. As architects, ...
Laura M. Grupp, Adrian M. Caulfield, Joel Coburn, ...
Reasoning about agents that we observe in the world is challenging. Our available information is often limited to observations of the agent’s external behavior in the past and p...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
As XQuery rapidly emerges as the standard for querying XML documents, it is very important to understand the architectural characteristics and behaviors of such workloads. A lot o...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...