Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Many networked applications that run in the background on a mobile device incur significant energy drains when using the cellular radio interface for communication. This is mainl...
Pavan K. Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha,...
Due to the strong increase of processing units available to the end user, expressing parallelism of an algorithm is a major challenge for many researchers. Parallel applications ar...
abstraction for modeling these problems is to view the Web as a collection of (usually small and heterogeneous) databases, and to view programs that extract and process Web data au...
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...