Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
Abstract. We reexamine the limits of parallelism available in programs, using runtime reconstruction of program data-flow graphs. While limits of parallelism have been examined in...
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
Kostas Kontogiannis, Renato de Mori, Morris Bernst...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
zation is a well-known method of abstracting physical resources and of separating the manipulation and use of logical resources from their underlying implementation. We have used ...
John K. Edwards, Daniel Ellard, Craig Everhart, Ro...