Message passing is a very popular style of parallel programming, used in a wide variety of applications and supported by many APIs, such as BSD sockets, MPI and PVM. Its importance...
With the proliferation of the new multi-core personal computers, and the explosion of the usage of highly concurrent machine configuration, concurrent code moves from being writt...
Information extraction systems are increasingly being used to mine structured information from unstructured text documents. A commonly used unsupervised technique is to build iter...
Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...