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...

Power consumption is an increasingly impressing concern for data servers as it directly affects running costs and system reliability. Prior studies have shown most memory space on data servers are used for buffer caching and thus cache replacement becomes critical. This paper investigates the tradeoff between these two interacting factors and proposes three energy-aware buffer cache replacement...

We show lower bounds for the signature size of incremental schemes which are secure against substitution attacks and support single block replacement. We prove that for documents of n blocks such schemes produce signatures of Ω(n) bits for any constant c > 0. For schemes accessing only a single block resp. a constant number of blocks for each replacement this bound can be raised to Ω(n) resp. Ω...

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...