In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
Embedded designers now have the capability of offloading software routines into custom applicationspecific hardware blocks. This paper evaluates a domain-specific design system fo...
HARNESS is an experimental metacomputing system that supports dynamic software reconfiguration, both of the resources that comprise the virtual machine and the services provided t...
Heterogeneous multiprocessors are growingly important in the multi-core era due to their potential for high performance and energy efficiency. In order for software to fully real...
Spatial queries for extracting data from wireless sensor networks are important for many applications, such as environmental monitoring and military surveillance. One such query i...