Cloud computing is quickly becoming the platform of choice for many web services. Virtualization is the key underlying technology enabling cloud providers to host services for a l...
Jakub Szefer, Eric Keller, Ruby B. Lee, Jennifer R...
This paper presents a novel reconfigurable data flow processing architecture that promises high performance by explicitly targeting both fine- and course-grained parallelism. This...
Charles L. Cathey, Jason D. Bakos, Duncan A. Buell
—With the proliferation of mobile devices in both smartphone and tablet form factors, it is intuitive and natural for users to socially interact with their collaborators or compe...
This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
While collections—aggregation mechanisms such as folders, buddy lists, photo albums, etc.—clearly play a central role in information management, the potential benefits of true...