Many operating systems allow user programs to specify the protectionlevel (inaccessible, read-only, read-write) of pages in their virtual memory address space, and to handle any p...
As an alternative to communication via messages or files, shared memory has the potential to be simpler, faster, and less wasteful of space. Unfortunately, the mechanisms availab...
W. E. Garrett, Michael L. Scott, Ricardo Bianchini...
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...
est case using an abstraction hierarchy in problem-solving can yield an exponential speed-up in search e ciency. Such a speed-up is predicted by various analytical models develope...
: Tasks such as forecasting, diagnosis, and planning frequently require quantitative predictions . Typically, quantitative predictions are obtained by characterizing a system in te...