Large archival storage systems experience long periods of idleness broken up by rare data accesses. In such systems, disks may remain powered off for long periods of time. These s...
Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller, Da...
Most adaptive delivery mechanisms for streaming multimedia content do not explicitly consider user-perceived quality when making adaptation decisions. We show that an optimal adap...
Ultraprecision turning is a manufacturing process used to generate a high surface roughness in precision components, and its input-output relationships are highly nonlinear. Surfa...
Modeling complex realistic objects is a difficult and time consuming process. Nevertheless, with improvements in rendering speed and quality, more and more applications require s...
Designing human-computer interfaces that are easy and intuitive to use is important for the use of computer technology in general. Due to the growing complexity of information sys...