it’s hardly Earth-shattering: abstracting your business services and separating them from your applications can yield an overall system that’s easier to build, maintain, and ex...
Garbage collection has proven benefits, including fewer memoryrelated errors and reduced programmer effort. Garbage collection, however, trades space for time. It reclaims memory...
Samuel Z. Guyer, Kathryn S. McKinley, Daniel Framp...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...
It is useful for an intelligent software agent to be able to adapt to new demands from an environment. Such adaptation can be viewed as a redesign problem; an agent has some origin...
Today's complex applications must face the distribution of data and code among different network nodes. Computation in distributed contexts is demanding increasingly powerful...