In this paper we present a hardware-assisted rendering technique coupled with a
compression scheme for the interactive visual exploration of time-varying scalar volume …

Improving security and minimizing power consumption are crucial for large-scale data
storage systems. Although a handful of studies have been focused on data security and …

Today, data centers power utilization has massive influences on environments. Data centers
are energy-starved, crucial structures that direct big-scale internet-based facilities. The …

Energy conservation has become a critical problem for real-time embedded storage
systems. Although a variety of approaches for reducing energy consumption have been …

Traditionally, interlibrary cooperation is an important interaction between libraries.
Nevertheless, the emerging digital library architecture has not explicitly supported this …

Power conservation for the storage system is crucial for cost saving and there are many
approaches to address it, such as multi-level storage and data migration strategy. However …

Improving energy efficiency of security-aware storage systems is challenging, because
security and energy efficiency are often two conflicting goals. The first step toward making …

Disk system performance is a bottleneck of improving computer system performance. In
order to minimize the disk response time for every file access request and improve the disk …

Energy conservation techniques play a vital role in mobile devices and sensors because
their operational capability is limited by battery power. Over the past few years, energy and …

Cluster computing systems are widely used in parallel and distributed computing research.
Besides performance, energy cost and security should also be carefully concerned in large …