This paper introduces an object-passing model for parallel and distributed application development. Object passing provides the object-oriented application developer with powerful...
Abstract Competition and cooperation can boost the performance of a combinatorial search process. Both can be implemented with a portfolio of algorithms which run in parallel, give...
Publish/subscribe infrastructures are used as the basic communication and integration framework in many application domains. The majority of those infrastructures, however, fall s...
Abstract— Content replication and distribution is an effective technology to reduce the response time for web accesses and has been proven quite popular among large Internet cont...
Application performance tuning is a complex process that requires assembling various types of information and correlating it with source code to pinpoint the causes of performance...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, David B....