While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access p...
Background: Protein topology representations such as residue contact maps are an important intermediate step towards ab initio prediction of protein structure. Although improvemen...
Increasing efforts have been aimed towards the management of power as a critical system resource, and the disk can consume approximately a third of the power required for a typica...
When using the computer, each user has some notion that "these applications are important" at a given point in time. We term this subset of applications that the user va...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Joseph Subid...
An important decision problem in many software projects is when to stop testing and release software for use. For many software products, time to market is critical and therefore ...
Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, William Marsh, Pete...