A comfort zone is a tested region of a system’s input space within which it has been observed to behave acceptably. To keep systems operating within their comfort zones, we advo...
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
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Xuezheng Fu, Hao Wang, William L. Harrison, Robert...
Thread-level speculation is a technique that brings thread-level parallelism beyond the data-flow limit by executing a piece of code ahead of time speculatively before all its inp...
Xiao-Feng Li, Zhao-Hui Du, Chen Yang, Chu-Cheow Li...
Disk power management is becoming increasingly important in high-end server and cluster type of environments that execute dataintensive applications. While hardware-only approache...