Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...
Performance gains in memory have traditionally been obtained by increasing memory bus widths and speeds. The diminishing returns of such techniques have led to the proposal of an ...
Brinda Ganesh, Aamer Jaleel, David Wang, Bruce L. ...
—Geospatial tagging (geotagging) is an emerging and very promising application that can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information, and facilitate the deve...
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...
The multi-level storage architecture has been widely adopted in servers and data centers. However, while prefetching has been shown as a crucial technique to exploit the sequentia...