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ECIS
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Pricing software development services
This paper studies the pricing of software development outsourcing. Two pricing techniques – time and material and fixed price – are described and the economic conditions for ...
Yossi Lichtenstein, Alan McDonnell
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Is transactional programming actually easier?
Chip multi-processors (CMPs) have become ubiquitous, while tools that ease concurrent programming have not. The promise of increased performance for all applications through ever ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett W...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
157views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
14 years 2 months ago
The Performance of Cache-Coherent Ring-based Multiprocessors
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
Luiz André Barroso, Michel Dubois
VLDB
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 3 months ago
STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing
Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a multibillion dollar industry with high-end database servers employing state-of-the-art processors to maximize performance. Unfortunately,...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Anastassia Ailamaki
ICDE
1999
IEEE
107views Database» more  ICDE 1999»
14 years 11 months ago
Using Codewords to Protect Database Data from a Class of Software Errors
Increasingly, for extensibility and performance, specialpurpose application code is being integrated with database system code. Such application code has direct access to database...
Philip Bohannon, Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Abra...