Feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is effective in improving application runtime performance, but has not been widely adopted due to the tedious dual-compilation model, the difď...
Dehao Chen, Neil Vachharajani, Robert Hundt, Shih-...
Online social network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others have grown rapidly, with hundreds of millions of active users. A new feature on many sites is social applications...
Andrew Besmer, Heather Richter Lipford, Mohamed Sh...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
In this paper a novel electronic payment protocol suitable for “peer-to-peer” (P2P) networks is presented. It implements electronic cash-based transactions, between buyers and...