Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...
Ubiquitous computing environments embedding a wide range of pervasive computing technologies provide a challenging and exciting new domain for information access. Individuals work...
Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine th...
Ted J. Wasserman, Patrick Martin, David B. Skillic...
Abstract-- In this paper, we propose a new map-based content sharing system 'MapWiki' for ubiquitous content distribution. In MapWiki, users can publish location-dependen...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...