Message passing is a very popular style of parallel programming, used in a wide variety of applications and supported by many APIs, such as BSD sockets, MPI and PVM. Its importance...
Data-ferrying disconnection-tolerant networks allow remote rural areas to access the Internet at very low cost, making them viable alternatives to more expensive access technologi...
New demandsare put on query processing in Object-Oriented(00) databasesto provide efficient andrelationally completequery languages. A flexible 00 data model requires overloading ...
Speculation is an every day phenomenon whereby one acts in anticipation of particular conditions that are likely to hold in the future. Computer science research has seen many suc...
Rising energy costs in large data centers are driving an agenda for energy-efficient computing. In this paper, we focus on the role of database software in affecting, and, ultimat...