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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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17 years 5 months ago
Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads
Virtual machine monitors are becoming popular tools for the deployment of database management systems and other enterprise software applications. In this paper, we consider a commo...
Ahmed A. Soror, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, P...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
QR-Codes for the chronically homeless
We propose a system to use QR codes and cheap cell phones to alleviate some challenges faced by the chronically homeless. We propose combining the affordability, simplicity and po...
Meseret Gebrekristos, Ahmad Aljadaan, Kumud Bihani
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
BALANCE: towards a usable pervasive wellness application with accurate activity inference
Technology offers the potential to objectively monitor people‘s eating and activity behaviors and encourage healthier lifestyles. BALANCE is a mobile phone-based system for long...
Tamara Denning, Adrienne H. Andrew, Rohit Chaudhri...
SRDS
2007
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
An Analytical Framework and Its Applications for Studying Brick Storage Reliability
The reliability of a large-scale storage system is influenced by a complex set of inter-dependent factors. This paper presents a comprehensive and extensible analytical framework ...
Ming Chen, Wei Chen, Likun Liu, Zheng Zhang
BTW
2005
Springer
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15 years 12 months ago
DBMS Architecture - Still an Open Problem
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Theo Härder