To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
Increasingly, for extensibility and performance, specialpurpose application code is being integrated with database system code. Such application code has direct access to database...
Philip Bohannon, Rajeev Rastogi, S. Seshadri, Abra...
This paper explores a novel interface to a system administration task. Instead of creating an interface de novo for the task, the author modified a popular computer game, Doom, to...
Widgets are becoming a natural way to design small, intuitive application, and their usage is becoming widespread on both the desktop and the mobile world. However, most widgets s...
Jean Le Feuvre, Cyril Concolato, Jean-Claude Dufou...
Clustering is a well known technique that allows scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems. In the J2EE framework, clustering can be used to improve the performance a...