—Human computation is a technique that makes use of human abilities for computation to solve problems. The human computation problems are the problems those computers are not goo...
—Recently, high-end reconfigurable computing systems that employ Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as hardware accelerators for general-purpose processors have been built. T...
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...