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...
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...
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...
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...
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...