Rust is a safe systems programming language. It introduces the concept of ownership, used formemorymanagement to prevent segment fault, resulting from improper memory manipulation. However, this mechanism to guarantee memory safety may bring about obstacles for usage of shared memory resources. Graph is such an example with shared nodes and edges mutually connected to each other. In this report...

The importance, function, and utility of a university library is considered from the (jaundiced?) viewpoint of a computer scientist. The library -is examined as partly a university-wide resource and partly as a research facility analogous to laboratory equipment in order to draw some conclusions about whether resources allocated to university libraries are appropriate. The position and breadth ...

Modern software systems build on a significant number of external libraries to deliver feature-rich and high-quality software in a cost-efficient and timely manner. As a consequence, these systems contain a considerable amount of third-party code. External libraries thus have a significant impact on maintenance activities in the project. However, most approaches that assess the maintainability ...

Automatic Library Tracking Database infrastructure is a lightweight tool that can automatically track the libraries that are linked into the applications. It can also track the applications that are launched on the Cray systems (on other systems as well). It was previously developed by Fahey, et al. [1], and was further developed at NERSC to be used at computing centers like NERSC, which has mo...

The Variations and Variations2 digital music library projects at Indiana University provide a valuable test-bed for user studies. We have used user satisfaction questionnaires, session logging, and contextual inquiry to study digital music library usage by music students. This paper describes our approach with each method and offers a comparison of cost, advantages, and disadvantages of each me...

There are two principal data sources for collaborative filtering recommenders in scholarly digital libraries: usage data obtained from harvesting a large, distributed collection of Open URL web logs and citation data obtained from the journal articles. This study explores the characteristics of recommendations generated by implementations of these two methods: the ‘bX’ system by ExLibris and an...

Learning to use existing or new software libraries is a difficult task for software developers, which would impede their productivity. Much existing work has provided different techniques to mine API usage patterns from client programs in order to help developers on understanding and using existing libraries. However, considering only client programs to identify API usage patterns is a strong c...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encompass the assessment of the effectiveness of the digital library and the value of multidisciplinary databases in terms of user preferences and use frequency by academic ranking. Design/methodology/approach – This paper compares the results of two survey questionnaires carried out in 2002 and 2005. It examines the level of awareness by academic staff...

At present, digital library (DL) policy is largely informed by management intuition and coarse measures of user satisfaction. Most DLs, however, maintain extensive server logs of user retrieval requests that contain a wealth of information on user preferences and the structure of user retrieval patterns. We propose a quantitative approach to DL evaluation that analyzes the retrieval habits of u...

Cloud computing is a new technological paradigm offering computing infrastructure, software and platforms as a pay-as-you-go subscription based service. Many potential customer’s of cloud services require essential cost assessments to be undertaken before transitioning to the cloud. Current assessment techniques are imprecise and rely on simplified resource requirements that fail to account for...