— As x86-64 processors become the CPU of choice for the personal computer market, it becomes increasingly important to understand the performance we can expect by migrating appli...
Dong Ye, Joydeep Ray, Christophe Harle, David R. K...
— As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torr...
Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, ...
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...
Mobile and pervasive applications frequently rely on devices such as RFID antennas or sensors (light, temperature, motion) to provide them information about the physical world. Th...
Nodira Khoussainova, Magdalena Balazinska, Dan Suc...
We study the problem of maintaining sketches of recent elements of a data stream. Motivated by applications involving network data, we consider streams that are asynchronous, in w...