Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...
A surrogate is an object that stands for a document and enables navigation to that document. Hypermedia is often represented with textual surrogates, even though studies have show...
Eunyee Koh, Daniel Caruso, Andruid Kerne, Ricardo ...
At Google, experimentation is practically a mantra; we evaluate almost every change that potentially affects what our users experience. Such changes include not only obvious user-...
Diane Tang, Ashish Agarwal, Deirdre O'Brien, Mike ...
Background: The increasing availability of molecular sequence data means that the accuracy of future phylogenetic studies is likely to by limited by systematic bias and taxon choi...
Martin O. Jones, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Mark L....
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...