Hardware signatures have been recently proposed as an efficient mechanism to detect conflicts amongst concurrently running transactions in transactional memory systems (e.g., Bulk...
— Virtual Private Networks (VPN) provide a secure and reliable communication between customer sites over a shared network. With increase in number and size of VPNs, providers nee...
Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of ownership in large data centers emphasize the need for database system techniques for both automatic performance tuning and ef...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu,...
The advancement of optical networking technologies has enabled e-science applications that often require transport of large volumes of scientific data. In support of such data-in...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...