ABSTRACT: Caching is widely recognized as an effective mechanism for improving the performance of the World Wide Web. One of the key components in engineering the Web caching syste...
In the search for high performance, most transactional memory (TM) systems execute atomic blocks concurrently and must thus be prepared for data conflicts. The TM system must then...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost interventions. ...
Brian DeRenzi, Neal Lesh, Tapan S. Parikh, Clayton...
In the 2006 U.S. election, it was estimated that over 66 million people would be voting on direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in 34% of the nation's counties [8]. Alth...
Sarah P. Everett, Kristen K. Greene, Michael D. By...