Users of complex applications need advice, assistance, and feedback while they work. We are experimenting with “adjunct” user agents that are aware of the history of interacti...
Robert G. Farrell, Peter G. Fairweather, Eric Brei...
In this paper we present three software design patterns for rapid prototyping of information visualization applications. The first pattern describes a mapping of object oriented ...
Hard-disk drive power consumption reduction methods focus mainly on increasing the amount of time the disk is in standby mode (disk spun down) by implementing aggressive data read...
A compressed-domain transformation is one that operates directly on the compressed format, rather than requiring conversion to an uncompressed format prior to processing. Performi...
In a database system, read operations are much more common than write operations, and consequently, database systems have been read optimized. As the size of main memory increases...