Miniaturization of devices and the ensuing decrease in the threshold voltage has led to a substantial increase in the leakage component of the total processor energy consumption. ...
Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
Regression testing is an expensive maintenance process used to revalidate modified software. Regression test selection (RTS) techniques attempt to reduce the cost of regression te...
Crash recovery in database systems aims to provide an acceptable level of protection from failure at a given engineering cost. A large number of recovery mechanisms are known, and...
S. Scheuerl, Richard C. H. Connor, Ronald Morrison...
Organizations spend significant resources tracking customer satisfaction and managing service delivery. Although a great deal of effort is expended in understanding what goes on w...