Different from multi-user database management systems, CSCW system must support group awareness explicitly, namely that participants should perceive the presence of each other dur...
Open-source software, usually created by volunteer programmers dispersed worldwide, now competes with that developed by software firms. This achievement is particularly impressive...
As the recent denial-of-service attacks on several major Internet sites have shown us, no open computer network is immune from intrusions. The wireless ad-hoc network is particula...
Vector prefix and reduction are collective communication primitives in which all processors must cooperate. We present two parallel algorithms, the direct algorithm and the split ...
Instruction scheduling is a necessary step in compiling for many modern microprocessors. Traditionally, global instruction scheduling techniques have outperformed local techniques....