Large-scale commercial, industrial and financial operations are becoming ever more interdependent, and ever more dependent on IT. At the same time, the rapidly growing interconnec...
This paper is the first of a two paper series that deals with an important problem in on-line learning mechanisms for autonomous agents that must perform non trivial tasks and oper...
Reducing the energy consumed in the use of computing devices is becoming a major design challenge. While the problem obviously must be addressed with improved low-level technology...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...
Periodic data backup is a system administration requirement that has changed as wireless machines have altered the fundamental structure of networks. These changes necessitate a c...
Gregory Pluta, Larry Brumbaugh, William Yurcik, Jo...