E-commerce and knowledge management applications generate and consume tremendous amounts of online information that is typically available as textual documents. To facilitate subs...
: Due to the tremendously increasing popularity of the World-Wide Web, hypermedia is going to be the leading online information medium for some years to come and will most likely b...
In recent years, digital images and videos have become increasingly popular over the internet and bring great social impact to a wide audience. In the meanwhile, technology advanc...
User I/O intensity can significantly impact the performance of on-line RAID reconstruction due to contention for the shared disk bandwidth. Based on this observation, this paper p...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...