This paper evaluates performance characteristics of the Compaq ES40 shared memory multiprocessor. The ES40 system contains up to four Alpha 21264 CPU’s together with a high-perf...
The objective of entity identification is to determine the correspondence between object instances from more than one database. This paper ezamines the problem at the instance lev...
The Wizard of Oz (WOz) technique is an experimental evaluation mechanism. It allows the observation of a user operating an apparently fully functioning system whose missing service...
We consider non-Horn Deductive Data Bases (DDB) represented in a First Order language without function symbols. In this context the DDB is an incomplete description of the world. ...
Most current single-chip processors employ an on-chip instruction cache to improve performance. A miss in this insk-uction cache will cause an external memory reference which must...