iCAP is a system that assists users in prototyping contextaware applications. iCAP supports sketching for creating input and output devices, and using these devices to design inte...
Conventional OLTP systems assign each transaction to a worker thread and that thread accesses data, depending on what the transaction dictates. This thread-to-transaction work ass...
In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...
Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the evolution of technology and to the interest of market. Their development, however, is not yet supp...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
Applications of the future will need to support large numbers of clients and will require scalable storage systems that allow state to be shared reliably. Recent research in distr...
Liuba Shrira, Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Atul ...