Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Many data center virtualization solutions, such as VMware ESX, employ content-based page sharing to consolidate the resources of multiple servers. Page sharing identifies virtual...
Timothy Wood, Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin, Prashant J. S...
As high-end computing systems continue to grow in scale, the performance that applications can achieve on such large scale systems depends heavily on their ability to avoid explic...
Gopalakrishnan Santhanaraman, Pavan Balaji, K. Gop...
Abstract— Mobile wireless sensor networks have to be robust against the limitations of the underlying platform. While lightweight form factor makes them an attractive choice for ...
Lun Jiang, Jyh-How Huang, Ankur Kamthe, Tao Liu, I...
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...