Connection preemption provides available and reliable services to high-priority connections when a network is heavily loaded and connection request arrival patterns are unknown, o...
This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade progr...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
ally related entity types, or classes, into higher level, more abstract types, as part of a hierarchical classi®cation scheme. graphy, generalization retains the notion of abstrac...
This paper presents a study of web content adaptation to improve server overload performance, as well as an implementation of a web content adaptation software prototype. When the...