IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
— In many devices, wireless network interfaces consume upwards of 30% of scarce portable system energy. Extending the system lifetime by minimizing communication power consumptio...
Security in the access to web contents and the interaction with web sites is becoming one of the most important issues in Internet. Servers need to provide certain levels of secur...
Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
Proactive contextual information systems help people locate information by automatically suggesting potentially relevant resources based on their current tasks or interests. Such ...
Daniel Billsus, David M. Hilbert, Dan Maynes-Aminz...