Increasingly, systems are being developed and used in ways that involve end of life issues such as death, dying, and bereavement. Yet design considerations and guidelines for tech...
ReAgents are remotely executing agents that customize Web browsing for non-standard resource-limited clients. A reAgent is essentially a "one-shot" mobile agent that act...
Recent and future parallel clusters and supercomputers use SMPs and multi-core processors as basic nodes, providing a huge amount of parallel resources. These systems often have h...
—As the service requirements of network applications shift from high throughput to high media quality, interactivity, and responsiveness, the definition of QoE (Quality of Exper...
Energy is the critical limiting resource to mobile computing devices. Correspondingly, an operating system must track, provision, and ration how applications consume energy. The e...
Stephen M. Rumble, Ryan Stutsman, Philip Levis, Da...