: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
: Social networks and communities like facebook and myspace gain increasing importance in people's everyday lives. Companies start to see these platforms as a chance for commu...
HYDRAstor is a scalable, secondary storage solution aimed at the enterprise market. The system consists of a back-end architectured as a grid of storage nodes built around a distr...
Advances in hardware have enabled many long-running applications to execute entirely in main memory. As a result, these applications have increasingly turned to database technique...
Tuan Cao, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Benjamin Sowe...
In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-asyou-go model. Reflecting the recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a n...