abstraction rules that hide the complexity of systems of components. We've begun this process in the domain of sensor/actuator network applications, observing that in manyappl...
Web prefetching mechanisms have been proposed to benefit web users by hiding the download latencies. Nevertheless, to the knowledge of the authors, there is no attempt to compare...
The layered design of the Linux operating system hides the liveness of file system data from the underlying block layers. This lack of liveness information prevents the storage sy...
emsintovirtualenvironments,whileabstracting the modeling process as much as possible. To achieve efficiency,weconcentrateoncullingdynamicalsystems: if the system is not in view, we...
Stephen Chenney, Jeffrey Ichnowski, David A. Forsy...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...