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USENIX
1994
15 years 7 months ago
Application-Controlled File Caching Policies
We considerhowtoimprovetheperformanceof le cachingbyallowinguser-levelcontrolover lecache replacementdecisions. Weusetwo-levelcachemanagement: the kernel allocates physical pages ...
Pei Cao, Edward W. Felten, Kai Li
OIR
2011
401views Neural Networks» more  OIR 2011»
14 years 9 months ago
Using Online Collaborative Tools for Groups to Co-Construct Knowledge
(limit 250 words) Purpose This paper reports and describes the use of MediaWiki and Google Docs at undergraduate level as online collaboration tools for co-constructing knowledge i...
Sam Kai Wah Chu, David M. Kennedy
ICDT
2007
ACM
74views Database» more  ICDT 2007»
15 years 10 months ago
World-Set Decompositions: Expressiveness and Efficient Algorithms
Uncertain information is commonplace in real-world data management scenarios. The ability to represent large sets of possible instances (worlds) while supporting efficient storage ...
Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch, Dan Olteanu
SIGOPS
2010
171views more  SIGOPS 2010»
15 years 5 months ago
Cassandra: a decentralized structured storage system
Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing very large amounts of structured data spread out across many commodity servers, while providing highly available service wit...
Avinash Lakshman, Prashant Malik
VLDB
2007
ACM
128views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 6 months ago
Periscope/SQ: Interactive Exploration of Biological Sequence Databases
Life science laboratories today have to rely on procedural techniques to store and manage large sequence datasets. Procedural techniques are cumbersome to use and are often very i...
Sandeep Tata, Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel