Many distributed systems manage some form of long-lived data, such as files or data bases. The performance and fault-tolerance of such systems may be enhanced if the repositories ...
Tasks have been identified as playing an important role to knowledge workers as high-level units for organizing their information. TaskTracer is a task-aware desktop system that l...
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In virtual machine environments each application is often run in its own virtual machine (VM), isolating it from other applications running on the same physical machine. Contentio...
Justin Cappos, Scott M. Baker, Jeremy Plichta, Duy...
Software installation provides an attractive entry vector for malware: since installations are performed with administrator privileges, malware can easily get the enhanced level of...
Weiqing Sun, R. Sekar, Zhenkai Liang, V. N. Venkat...
Wireless devices that integrate the functionality of PDAs and cell phones are becoming commonplace, making different types of network services available to mobile applications. How...
Collin Mulliner, Giovanni Vigna, David Dagon, Wenk...