Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Phillip B. Gib...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSN) built using current Berkeley Mica motes exhibit low reliability for packet delivery. There is anecdotal evidence of poor packet delivery rates fro...
JunSuk Shin, Umakishore Ramachandran, Mostafa H. A...
Modeling and analysis of program behavior are at the foundation of computer system design and optimization. As computer systems become more adaptive, their efficiency increasingly...
The efficacy of data aggregation in sensor networks is a function of the degree of spatial correlation in the sensed phenomenon. While several data aggregation (i.e., routing with...