—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
The explosive growth of multimedia and other bandwidth intensive applications has resulted a rapid increase in the size of the traffic loads that needs to be supported by modern n...
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical spac...
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, Douglas Tudhop...
The structured programming literature provides methods and a wealth of heuristic knowledge for guiding the construction of provably correct imperative programs. We investigate the...
Scenarios are narratives that illustrate future possibilities, such as proposed systems or plans, and help policy makers and designers choose among alternative courses of action. ...