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KBSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Testing Database Transaction Concurrency
Database application programs are often designed to be executed concurrently by many clients. By grouping related database queries into transactions, DBMS systems can guarantee th...
Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Zhongqiang Chen
IJCAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Estimating the Rate of Web Page Updates
Estimating the rate of Web page updates helps in improving the Web crawler’s scheduling policy. But, most of the Web sources are autonomous and updated independently. Clients li...
Sanasam Ranbir Singh
IPPS
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Software Techniques for Improving MPP Bulk-Transfer Performance
Brewer and Kuszmaul [BK94] demonstrated how barriers and traffic interleaving can alleviate the problem of bulk-transfer performance degradation on the Thinking Machines CM-5, by ...
Eric A. Brewer, Paul Gauthier, Armando Fox, Angela...
QEST
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Reasoning about MDPs as Transformers of Probability Distributions
We consider Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) as transformers on probability distributions, where with respect to a scheduler that resolves nondeterminism, the MDP can be seen as ex...
Vijay Anand Korthikanti, Mahesh Viswanathan, Gul A...
ICFP
1999
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Atomic Heap Transactions and Fine-grain Interrupts
Languages such as Java, ML, Scheme, and Haskell provide automatic storage management, that is, garbage collection. The two fundamental operations performed on a garbagecollected h...
Olin Shivers, James W. Clark, Roland McGrath