The rise of the software-as-a-service paradigm has led to the development of a new breed of sophisticated, interactive applications often called Web 2.0. While web applications ha...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
: The SpiNNaker machine is a massively parallel computing system, consisting of 1,000,000 cores. From one perspective, it has a place in Flynns' taxonomy: it is a straightforw...
Andrew D. Brown, Steve Furber, Jeff S. Reeve, Pete...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
Cloud storage is an emerging infrastructure that offers Platforms as a Service (PaaS). On such platforms, storage and compute power are adjusted dynamically, and therefore it is i...