Securing resources against unauthorized access and/or use is a major concern of every organization that uses computer networks. To protect internal networks from external attacks,...
Software agent-based negotiation is a major method to automate the interactions in electronic marketplaces and Internet enabled communities. The traditional approach is to let the...
—A massive volume of biological sequence data is available in over 36 different databases worldwide, including the sequence data generated by the Human Genome project. These data...
We design and implement FD-Buffer, a buffer manager for database systems running on flash-based disks. Unlike magnetic disks, flash media has an inherent read-write asymmetry: w...
Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qion...
Flash devices have been widely used in embedded systems, laptop computers, and enterprise servers. However, the poor random writes have been an obstacle to running write-intensive...