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BIRTHDAY
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions
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...
Michael J. Butler, C. A. R. Hoare, Carla Ferreira
ECOOP
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Finding and Removing Performance Bottlenecks in Large Systems
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...
Glenn Ammons, Jong-Deok Choi, Manish Gupta, Nikhil...
CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Better Mythology for System Design
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)...
Jed Harris, D. Austin Henderson Jr.
STOC
1997
ACM
125views Algorithms» more  STOC 1997»
14 years 3 months ago
An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
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...
James Allen Fill
ECBS
1996
IEEE
93views Hardware» more  ECBS 1996»
14 years 3 months ago
A Methodology for Designing and Dimensioning Critical Complex Computing Systems
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...
Gérard Le Lann