— The execution of data intensive grid applications still raises several questions regarding job scheduling, data migration and replication. The optimization techniques applied b...
Mirror sites approach has been proposed recently for reducing the access delay and providing load balancing in network servers. In the mirror site approach a file, such as a multi...
A variety of performance-enhancing techniques, such as striping, mirroring, and rotational data replication, exist in the disk array literature. Given a fixed budget of disks, one...
Xiang Yu, Benjamin Gum, Yuqun Chen, Randolph Y. Wa...
A multimedia server delivers presentations (e.g., videos, movies, games), providing high bandwidth and continuous real-time delivery. In this paper we present techniques for reduc...
Active reading, involving acts such as highlighting, writing notes, etc., is an important part of knowledge workers’ activities. Most computer-based active reading support seeks...