Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
Abstract. Software systems obey the 80/20 rule: aggressively optimizing a vital few execution paths yields large speedups. However, finding the vital few paths can be difficult, e...
The past decades have seen huge improvements in computer systems but these have proved difficult to translate into comparable improvements in the usability and social integration)...
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
It is widely recognized that real-time,fault-tolerant and distributed computing technologies play a key role in the deployment of many current andfuture (civilian or Defense) crit...