Robustness has become a popular issue in engineering. For products, Taguchi suggests to adjust the design so that product performance is insensitive to the effects of uncontrolled...
This paper presents a performance comparison of several file system allocation policies. The file systems are designed to provide high bandwidth between disks and main memory by...
Protocols that solve agreement problems are essential building blocks for fault tolerant distributed systems. While many protocols have been published, little has been done to ana...
The continuing trend toward greater processing power, larger storage, and in particular increased display surface by using multiple monitor supports increased multi-tasking by the...
Dugald Ralph Hutchings, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, ...
In this paper, we present the results of a comparative evaluation of a "virtual Lego" system against real Lego bricks with novice users. The virtual Lego system was desi...