Existing concurrency control algorithms do not well conform to various environments, in the performance perspective. Each algorithm has some assumption on the conflict characteris...
This paper introduces COAST, an object-oriented toolkit for the development of synchronous groupware, which enhances the usability and simplifies the development of such applicati...
Mirroring is often used to enhance the reliability of disk systems, but it is usually considered expensive because it duplicates storage cost and increases the cost of writes. Tra...
Christos A. Polyzois, Anupam Bhide, Daniel M. Dias
In the last years Blog Search has been a new exciting task in Information Retrieval. The presence of user generated information with valuable opinions makes this field of huge in...
Ubiquitous computing poses new usability challenges that cut across design and development. We are particularly interested in "spaces" enhanced with sensors, public disp...