The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommod...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Stoica, Mano...
Memory leaks are caused by software programs that prevent the reclamation of memory that is no longer in use. They can cause significant slowdowns, exhaustion of available storag...
Software cache-based side channel attacks present a serious threat to computer systems. Previously proposed countermeasures were either too costly for practical use or only effect...
Existing association rule mining algorithms suffer from many problems when mining massive transactional datasets. Some of these major problems are: (1) the repetitive I/O disk sca...
Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase perf...