Access latency to secondary storage devices is frequently a limiting factor in computer system performance. New storage technologies promise to provide greater storage densities a...
Bo Hong, Scott A. Brandt, Darrell D. E. Long, Etha...
A challenge for pervasive computing is the seamless integration of computer support with users’ activities in a very dynamic setting, with deep human and resource mobility. Port...
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Karin Breitman, Nicola...
I/O is a major performance bottleneck in modern computer systems. Modern disks use the Zone-Bit-Recording (ZBR) technology to increase the capacity. A direct consequence of ZBR is...
Time zones play an important and unexplored role in malware epidemics. To understand how time and location affect malware spread dynamics, we studied botnets, or large coordinated...
: Sentient Computing provides computers with perception so that they can react and provide assistance to user activities. Physical spaces are made sentient when they are wired with...