Arguably, the main goal of Grid Computing is to facilitate the creation of Virtual Organizations (VOs); however, to date, not enough attention has been placed on the policies and ...
This paper reports on Direct Combination, a new user interaction technique. Direct Combination may be viewed variously as: a systematic extension to Direct Manipulation; a concise...
Dynamic reconfiguration allows modifying a system during its execution, and can be used to apply patches and updates, to implement adaptive systems, dynamic instrumentation, or to...
A consistent backup, preserving data integrity across files in a file system, is of utmost importance for the purpose of correctness and minimizing system downtime during the proc...
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...