Both the academia and practice recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate benefits. Nevertheless, there has been a lack of methodological devel...
Tempus Fugit (“Time Flies”) is the first of a new generation of Personal Information Management (PIM) systems. A PIM system incorporates an electronic calendar, “to-do” li...
Daniel Alexander Ford, Joann Ruvolo, Stefan Edlund...
In recent years, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is gaining momentum with more and more successful adoptions. Several companies including some well known names have embraced this new...
This paper presents a new approach towards parallel I/O for message-passing (MPI) applications on clusters built with commodity hardware and an SCI interconnect: instead of using t...
Across a wide variety of fields, huge datasets are being collected and accumulated at a dramatical pace. The datasets addressed by individual applications are very often heteroge...