We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Abstract. High quality context information plays a vital role in adapting a system to the rapidly changing situations. However, the diversity of the sources of context information ...
Evaluation of high performance parallel systems is a delicate issue, due to the difficulty of generating workloads that represent, with fidelity, those that will run on actual sys...
Security in the access to web contents and the interaction with web sites is becoming one of the most important issues in Internet. Servers need to provide certain levels of secur...
Performance asymmetry in multicore architectures arises when individual cores have different performance. Building such multicore processors is desirable because many simple cores...
Saisanthosh Balakrishnan, Ravi Rajwar, Michael Upt...