Parallel disks provide a cost effective way of speeding up I/Os in applications that work with large amounts of data. The main challenge is to achieve as much parallelism as poss...
Through web service technology, distributed applications can be built in a exible manner, bringing tremendous power to applications on the web. However, this exibility poses sig...
A long standing challenge in pen-based computer interaction is the ability to make sense of informal sketches. A main difficulty lies in reliably extracting and recognizing the i...
Complex distributed Internet services form the basis not only of e-commerce but increasingly of mission-critical networkbased applications. What is new is that the workload and in...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...