A number of solutions have been proposed for the problem of mutual exclusion in distributed systems. Some of these approaches have since been extended to a prioritized environment...
This paper introduces power default reasoning (PDR), a framework for nonmonotonic reasoning based on the domain-theoretic idea of modeling default rules with partial-information i...
The memory consistency model supported by a multiprocessor architecture determines the amount of buffering and pipelining that may be used to hide or reduce the latency of memory ...
Kourosh Gharachorloo, Anoop Gupta, John L. Henness...
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Modern computer architectures have complex features that can only be fully taken advantage of if the compiler schedules the compiled code. A standard region of code for scheduling ...
Abid M. Malik, Michael Chase, Tyrel Russell, Peter...