During maintenance, systems are updated to correct faults, improve functionality, and adapt the software to changes in its execution environment. The typical softwareupdate proces...
In this paper we present the Cataclysm server platform for handling extreme overloads in hosted Internet applications. The primary contribution of our work is to develop a low ove...
Apache is a large-scale industrial multi-process and multithreaded application, which uses lock-based synchronization. We report on our experience in modifying Apache’s cache mo...
This paper presents recursion unrolling, a technique for improving the performance of recursive computations. Conceptually, recursion unrolling inlines recursive calls to reduce c...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....