As computer systems continue to become more powerful and comdo programs. High-level abstractions introduced to deal with complexity in large programs, while simplifying human reas...
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Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
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Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
Embedded single-chip heterogeneous multiprocessor (SCHM) systems experience frequent system events such as task preemption, power-saving voltage/frequency scaling, or arrival of n...
Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...