— Most visions of ubiquitous computing anticipate a world permeated by a dense sampling of sensors, many of which will be capable of capturing, analyzing, and transmitting person...
Mathew Laibowitz, Nan-Wei Gong, Joseph A. Paradiso
In petabyte-scale distributed file systems that decouple read and write from metadata operations, behavior of the metadata server cluster will be critical to overall system perfo...
Sage A. Weil, Kristal T. Pollack, Scott A. Brandt,...
Sensing the state of the environment is an important source for context-aware applications. Several approaches exist to provide sensor information to mobile application nodes. As ...
This paper discusses the challenges of putting Apple Macintosh OSX into open access and computer lab environments. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.6.4 [Management of Computin...
In the development of agent applications, interactions are an important issue, which must be faced with appropriate methodologies and tools. A separation of concerns between the a...