With the expected increase in the number of on-chip cores the demand for off-chip bus, memory ports, and chip pins increases. This makes off-chip bandwidth a very scarce resource and can severely hurt performance. Off-chip bandwidth is mainly generated by the on-chip cache hierarchy (cache misses and cache writebacks), which depends on the replacement policy. There is a huge body of research on...

Advances in parallel computation are of central importance to Artificial Intelligence due to the significant amount of time and space their programs require. Functional languages have been identified as providing a clear and concise way of programming parallel machines for artificial intelligence tasks. The problems of exporting, creating, and manipulating processes have been thoroughly studied...

25 Even though several sow replacement models have been published, integrating 26 information about the health status of sows has not yet been handled satisfactorily. This 27 paper presents a framework for integrating a Weak Sow Index (WSI) into an existing 28 sow replacement model. The WSI, which is developed as part of this study, quantifies 29 various clinical signs into one numerical value ...

The Location Based Services (LBS) have ushered the way mobile applications access and manage Mobile Database System (MDS). Caching frequently accessed data into the mobile database environment, is an effective technique to improve the MDS performance. The cache size limitation enforces an optimized cache replacement algorithm to find a suitable subset of items for eviction from the cache. In wi...

Caching frequently accessed data items on the client side is an effective technique to improve the system performance in mobile environment. Due to cache size limitations, the choice of cache replacement techniques used to find a suitable subset of items for eviction from cache becomes important. In this paper, we propose a new cost function based cache replacement policy, Predicted Region Base...

Recent research has shown that near optimal performance can be achieved by adaptive block replacement policies that use user-level hints regarding the block reference pattern. However, obtaining user-level hints requires considerable effort from users making it difficult to apply adaptive replacement policies to diverse kinds of applications. We propose a new adaptive block management scheme th...