A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are data storage devices that use solid-state memory to store persistent data. Flash memory is the de facto nonvolatile technology used in most SSDs. It ...
Miaoqing Huang, Olivier Serres, Vikram K. Narayana...
Advances in technology have enabled new approaches for sensing the environment and collecting data about the world. Once collected, sensor readings can be assembled into data stre...
Eric P. Kasten, Philip K. McKinley, Stuart H. Gage
This paper presents a case study concerning the challenges and requirements posed by next generation language resources, realized as an overall model of open, distributed and coll...
Federico Calzolari, Eva Sassolini, Manuela Sassi, ...
Recent technological advances have enabled both the consumption and provision of mobile services (m-services) by small, portable, handheld devices. However, mobile devices still h...