The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
The UK Grand Challenges for Computing Research is an initiative to map out certain key areas that could be used to help drive research over the next 10–15 years. One of the ident...
Susan Stepney, John A. Clark, Colin G. Johnson, De...
Abstract. As an alternative to message passing, Rochester's InterWeave system allows the programmer to map shared segments into programs spread across heterogeneous, distribut...
We introduce a new class of games, asynchronous congestion games (ACGs). In an ACG, each player has a task that can be carried out by any element of a set of resources, and each r...
Abstract. Model checking is a technique for verifying that a finite-state concurrent system is correct with respect to its specification. In bounded model checking (BMC), the sys...
Shoham Ben-David, Richard J. Trefler, Grant E. Wed...