Abstract. The Santa Claus problem provides an excellent exercise in concurrent programming and can be used to show the simplicity or complexity of solving problems using a particul...
Abstract— This paper focuses on large-scale distributed systems that can be modeled as workflows of activities sharing resources, knowledge, know-how and services. We propose a ...
Collaborative optimization problems can often be modeled as a linear program whose objective function and constraints combine data from several parties. However, important applicat...
``Object-Oriented Programming'' and ``Data Abstraction'' have become very common terms. Unfortunately, few people agree on what they mean. I will offer informa...
The memory consistency model supported by a multiprocessor architecture determines the amount of buffering and pipelining that may be used to hide or reduce the latency of memory ...
Kourosh Gharachorloo, Anoop Gupta, John L. Henness...