— There are many grid-based applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require a significant computation and possibly communic...
Recently a bulk of research [14, 5, 15, 9] has been done on the modelling of the smallworld phenomenon, which has been shown to be pervasive in social and nature networks, and eng...
Enabling high performance, persistent mobile computing has recently become a very active research area. The widespread popularity of mobile computing devices, such as laptops, han...
Automatic library generators, such as ATLAS [11], Spiral [8] and FFTW [2], are promising technologies to generate efficient code for different computer architectures. The library...
Daniel Orozco, Liping Xue, Murat Bolat, Xiaoming L...
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...