Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
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...
Nearest neighbor query is one of the most important operations in spatial databases and their application domains, e.g., locationbased services, advanced traveler information syst...
We present a mobile product recognition system for the camera-phone. By snapping a picture of a product with a camera-phone, the user can retrieve online information of the produc...
Sam S. Tsai, David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, G...