This paper presents kernel plugins, a framework for dynamic kernel specialization inspired by ideas borrowed from virtualization research. Plugins can be created and updated inexp...
We present a user-centred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of two query-based document skimming tools. ProfileSkim bases within-document retrieval on computing a relevance pr...
Unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) system is the prevalent model in today's P2P system. In such systems, a response is sent along the same path that carried the incoming query m...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
A number of new network storage architectures have emerged recently that provide shared, adaptable and high-performance storage systems for dataintensive applications. Three commo...