We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...
In this paper, we study the media workload collected from a large number of commercial Web sites hosted by a major ISP and that collected from a large group of home users connecte...
Sensor networks consist of a potentially huge number of very small and resource limited self-organizing devices. Those devices offer different services and use services provided b...
ER ABSTRACTIONS ter service uses several abstractions— including resource, resource dependencies, and resource groups—to simplify both the cluster service itself and user-visib...
The Compass20083 project is a sino-german cooperation, aiming at integrating advanced information technologies to create a hightech information system that helps visitors to access...