This paper considers the problem of estimating the power breakdowns for the main appliances inside a building using a small number of power meters and the knowledge of the ON/OFF ...
The queue data structure is fundamental and ubiquitous. Lockfree versions of the queue are well known. However, an important open question is whether practical wait-free queues ex...
The term scalability appears frequently in computing literature, but it is a term that is poorly defined and poorly understood. The lack of a clear, consistent and systematic trea...
For the last few years we have studied the diffusion of private information about users as they visit various Web sites triggering data gathering aggregation by third parties. Thi...
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...