This paper addresses the desktop search problem by considering various techniques for ranking results of a search query over the file system. First, basic ranking techniques, whic...
Relational database systems have traditionally optimzed for I/O performance and organized records sequentially on disk pages using the N-ary Storage Model (NSM) (a.k.a., slotted p...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill...
Phase change memory (PCM) is an emerging memory technology for future computing systems. Compared to other non-volatile memory alternatives, PCM is more matured to production, and...
The usage of cellular phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices has increased dramatically over the past ten years. Java is targeted to be one of the most popular execution environme...
Christoph Kerschbaumer, Gregor Wagner, Christian W...
It is expected that the next generation of smart card will be more intelligent, more interactive and more interoperable. We call these the 3i requirements. A smart card wallet sys...