Large writes are beneficial both on individual disks and on disk arrays, e.g., RAID-5. The presented design enables large writes of internal B-tree nodes and leaves. It supports b...
Awareness has now become a widely accepted central feature in groupware systems. In this context, providing an awareness support consists in delivering to users involved in a colla...
Current research activities in the area of trading digital products usually focus on specific legal or technical problems, neglecting the underlying business models and their impl...
The widespread adoption of automated fare collection (AFC) systems by public transport authorities around the world means that, increasingly, people carry and use passive sensors ...
Leakage power dissipation is one of the most critical factors for the overall current dissipation and future designs. However, design techniques for the reduction of leakage power...