Two phase commit (ZPC) ia used to coordinate the commitment of trunsactiom in distributed systems. The standard 2PC optimization is the presumed abort variant, which wea fewer mes...
The Semantic Web language RDF was designed to unambiguously define and use ontologies to encode data and knowledge on the Web. Many people find it difficult, however, to write com...
Partitioning is a key database task. In this paper we explore partitioning performance on a chip multiprocessor (CMP) that provides a relatively high degree of on-chip thread-leve...
We introduce the knotty gesture, a simple yet powerful technique for interacting with paper. Knots are tiny circles that can be added to any gesture. Users can leave subtle marks ...
This work is in the domain of Electronic Document Management (EDM) [1]. The documents can be an electronic writing, an image, a sound file, a network protocol message, a set of da...