The increasing performance gap between processors and memory will force future architectures to devote significant resources towards removing and hiding memory latency. The two ma...
Governments and commercial companies connect more and more computer systems to the Internet, giving people easier access to services. Many of these online services handle personal ...
Existing security models require that information of a given security level be prevented from “leaking” into lower-security information. High-security applications must be dem...
Garbage collection yields numerous software engineering benefits, but its quantitative impact on performance remains elusive. One can compare the cost of conservative garbage col...
In this paper we propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable. The metaphor then can be used as an interface to communicate informatio...