Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
Our work is motivated by the problem of managing data on storage devices, typically a set of disks. Such storage servers are used as web servers or multimedia servers, for handling...
Leana Golubchik, Samir Khuller, Yoo Ah Kim, Svetla...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...
Recently, flash memory is emerging as the storage device. With price sliding fast, the cost per capacity is approaching to that of SATA disk drives. So far flash memory has been ...
The validation of modern software systems on mobile devices needs to incorporate both functional and non-functional requirements. While some progress has been made in validating pe...
Thomas Hubbard, Raimondas Lencevicius, Edu Metz, G...