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...
Prefetching offers the potential to improve the performance of linked data structure (LDS) traversals. However, previously proposed prefetching methods only work well when there i...
Magnus Karlsson, Fredrik Dahlgren, Per Stenstr&oum...
Multiagent systems are often characterized by complex, and sometimes unpredictable interactions amongst their autonomous components. While these systems can provide robust and sca...
Wilbur Peng, William Krueger, Alexander Grushin, P...
Overlapping communication with computation is an important optimization on current cluster architectures; its importance is likely to increase as the doubling of processing power ...
Wei-Yu Chen, Dan Bonachea, Costin Iancu, Katherine...
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...