Many current multimedia database management systems perform content-based retrieval of images by extracting the values of various features from every object stored in their system...
Commodity file systems trust disks to either work or fail completely, yet modern disks exhibit more complex failure modes. We suggest a new fail-partial failure model for disks, ...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, N...
A critical challenge to creating effective agent-based systems is allowing them to operate effectively when the operating environment is complex, dynamic, and error-prone. In this...
DryadLINQ is a system and a set of language extensions that enable a new programming model for large scale distributed computing. It generalizes previous execution environments su...
Yuan Yu, Michael Isard, Dennis Fetterly, Mihai Bud...
DPM (Dynamic Power Management) is an effective technique for reducing the energy consumption of embedded systems that is based on migrating to a low power state when possible. Whi...