An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
Abstract. There are many settings in which sensitive information is made available to a system or organisation for a specific purpose, on the understanding that it will be erased o...
MPEG, the Mowing Picture Experts Group, is a popular compression standard used in many multimedia applications. In video distribution systems, a CBR communications channel is ofte...
Web-based information systems provide to their users the ability to interleave querying and browsing during their information discovery efforts. The MIX system provides an API cal...
Web Information Systems (WIS) support the process of retrieving information from sources on the Web and of presenting them as a hypermedia presentation. Most WIS design ogies focu...
Bas Rutten, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-...