Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
Social networking sites (SNS) are only as good as the content their users share. Therefore, designers of SNS seek to improve the overall user experience by encouraging members to ...
We present a study of the effects of instant messaging (IM) on individuals' management of work across multiple collaborative projects. Groups of four participants completed f...
Susan R. Fussell, Sara B. Kiesler, Leslie D. Setlo...
The main memory management has been a critical issue to provide high performance in web cluster systems. To overcome the speed gap between processors and disks, many prefetch sche...
The challenge for user authentication in a global file system is allowing people to grant access to specific users and groups in remote administrative domains, without assuming ...
Michael Kaminsky, George Savvides, David Mazi&egra...