Efficient query processing is one of the basic needs for data mining algorithms. Clustering algorithms, association rule mining algorithms and OLAP tools all rely on efficient quer...
XML database systems emerge as a result of the acceptance of the XML data model. Recent works have followed the promising approach of building XML database management systems on un...
Parallel computing on volatile distributed resources requires schedulers that consider job and resource characteristics. We study unconventional computing environments containing ...
Brent Rood, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Michael J. Lewi...
Asymmetric (or Heterogeneous) Multiprocessors are becoming popular in the current era of multi-cores due to their power efficiency and potential performance and energy efficienc...
Nagesh B. Lakshminarayana, Jaekyu Lee, Hyesoon Kim
We present a novel mechanism, called meeting point thread characterization, to dynamically detect critical threads in a parallel region. We define the critical thread the one with...