Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
Silicon technology will continue to provide an exponential increase in the availability of raw transistors. Effectively translating this resource into application performance, how...
Steven Swanson, Ken Michelson, Andrew Schwerin, Ma...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
This paper presents the software architecture and implementation of the problem solving environment (PSE) PELLPACK for modeling physical objects described by partial differential ...
Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice, Sanjiva Weerawaran...
We address the problem of learning the parameters in graphical models when inference is intractable. A common strategy in this case is to replace the partition function with its B...