We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
Applications running on a mobile and wireless devices must be able to adapt gracefully to limited and fluctuating network resources. The variety of applications, platforms upon w...
Yuri Dotsenko, Eyal de Lara, Dan S. Wallach, Willy...
Abstract Within the home, digital photos lack the physical affordances that make collocated photo-sharing easy and opportunistic. Family members have difficulty accessing the perso...
Context-aware computing describes the situation where a wearable / mobile computer is aware of its user’s state and surroundings and modifies its behavior based on this informat...
Andreas Krause, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagi...
—People increasingly put more than one OSes into their computers and devices like mobile phones. Multi-boot and virtualization are two common technologies for this purpose. In th...