As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...
Duplicated code is a well known problem in software maintenance and refactoring. Code clones tend to increase program size and several studies have shown that duplicated code make...
Context-awareness is starting to emerge as a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of pervasive services in pervasive computing environments. Semantic languages se...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
System-level design of embedded computer systems is essential to manage complexity and enhance designer productivity. Viewing designs at t abstraction levels allows developers to ...
Robert D. Walstrom, Joseph Schneider, Diane T. Rov...
The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successful actually, that there is now an urgent need to go beyond a browsing human and ...