How to rapidly disseminate a large-sized file to many recipients is a fundamental problem in many applications, such as updating software patches and distributing large scientific ...
Low disk throughput is one of the main impediments to improving the performance of data-intensive servers. In this paper, we propose two management techniques for the disk control...
Since commercial musical recordings became available about a century ago and until very recently, they had always been distributed by means of a physical support. Nowadays that re...
An approach for factoring source-code differences is presented. A single large difference between two versions of a program is decomposed into factors (i.e., smaller changes). The...
Michael L. Collard, Huzefa H. Kagdi, Jonathan I. M...
Reduced sizes of music files due to compression technologies has allowed for piracy to become a rampant problem on the Internet even in the absence of significant bandwidth. Howev...