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MOBIHOC
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Internal synchronization of drift-constraint clocks in ad-hoc sensor networks
Clock synchronization is a crucial basic service in typical sensor networks, since the observations of distributed sensors more often than not need to be ordered ("a happened...
Lennart Meier, Philipp Blum, Lothar Thiele
USENIX
2007
13 years 10 months ago
DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch
Current disk prefetch policies in major operating systems track access patterns at the level of the file abstraction. While this is useful for exploiting application-level access...
Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, X...
VLDB
2007
ACM
198views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)
In previous papers [SC05, SBC+07], some of us predicted the end of "one size fits all" as a commercial relational DBMS paradigm. These papers presented reasons and exper...
Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden, Daniel J. Abad...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
149views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 7 months ago
Mobile and embedded databases
Recent advances in device technology and connectivity have paved the way for next generation applications that are data-driven, where data can reside anywhere, can be accessed at ...
Anil Nori
PATAT
2004
Springer
130views Education» more  PATAT 2004»
14 years 27 days ago
Learning User Preferences in Distributed Calendar Scheduling
Abstract. Within the field of software agents, there has been increasing interest in automating the process of calendar scheduling in recent years. Calendar (or meeting) schedulin...
Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith