Recent research has shown that near optimal performance can be achieved by adaptive block replacement policies that use user-level hints regarding the block reference pattern. How...
Jongmoo Choi, Sam H. Noh, Sang Lyul Min, Yookun Ch...
Pharos is a collaborative application which enables users to share document annotations. Annotations of a same subject are stored altogether in channels, and channels are replicat...
Due to the lack of efficient native XML database management systems, XML data manipulation and query evaluation may be resource-consuming, and represent a bottleneck for several ...
Abstract. New emerging applications including genomic, multimedia, and geospatial technologies have necessitated the handling of complex application objects that are highly structu...
Tao Chen, Arif Khan, Markus Schneider, Ganesh Visw...
The progress of mobile device technology unfolds a new spectrum of applications that challenges conventional infrastructure models. Most of these devices are perceived by their us...