Many applications of parallel I/O perform non-contiguous file accesses: instead of accessing a single (large) block of data in a file, a number of (smaller) blocks of data scatt...
The increasing constraints on power consumption in many computing systems point to the need for power modeling and estimation for all components of a system. The Operating System ...
Next generation tiled microarchitectures are going to be limited by off-chip misses and by on-chip network usage. Furthermore, these platforms will run an heterogeneous mix of ap...
This system paper reports on some of the advantages tangible interaction can bring to chemistry education. The paper describes the realisation of an in-house designed Tangible Use...
We propose a new approach for applying Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to methods in objects in the Java programming language. In our approach, a policy implementer (usually a de...