A recent trend in Ubiquitous Computing is that embedded software (e.g. in production machines, wired or wireless networked sensors and actuators, or RFID readers) directly offers W...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...
Embedded software requires concurrency formalisms other than threads and mutexes used in traditional programming languages like C. Actor-oriented design presents a high level abstr...
In order to effectively validate the performance of software systems throughout their development cycle it is necessary to continuously build performance models from software mod...
To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...