The increasing power of computers, increasing capacity of digital memory and wider availability of a great variety of input devices such as cameras and video recorders, has resulte...
— Skewed-associative caches use several hash functions to reduce collisions in caches without increasing the associativity. This technique can increase the hit ratio of a cache w...
Henk L. Muller, Paul W. A. Stallard, David H. D. W...
This paper presents a distributed architecture for the management and retrieval of particular objects called POIsmarts. POIsmarts can be considered as the convergence between virt...
Harmonizing decentralized development of ICT solutions with centralized strategies, e.g., meant to favor reuse and optimization of resources, is a complex technical and organizatio...
Pavel Shvaiko, Adolfo Villafiorita, Alessandro Zor...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...