People take more and more photos at different time and different events, however, these photos are often put into one giant folder and they are seldom annotated or organized. As t...
A large number of user requests execute (often concurrently) within a server system. A single request may exhibit fluctuating hardware characteristics (such as instruction comple...
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
With the popularization of GPS-enabled devices there is an increasing interest for location-based queries. In this context, one interesting problem is processing top-k spatial key...
Smart dust motes are miniature self-contained systems that may be deployed in very large numbers. In military applications these devices are subject to different threats than conv...