Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. At the application layer, hot spots are usually caused by either (a) high demand for some data or (b) high...
Samrat Bhattacharjee, William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu C...
Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displ...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Watt...
We explore the possibility of using both face and gait in enhancing human recognition at a distance performance in outdoor conditions. Although the individual performance of gait ...
In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
We present FlashStore, a high throughput persistent keyvalue store, that uses flash memory as a non-volatile cache between RAM and hard disk. FlashStore is designed to store the ...