The authors discuss their efforts in building a system for the automatic generation,
integration, and visualization of media streams-independent information sources that define …

I/O is a major performance bottleneck in modern computer systems. Modern disks use zone-
bit-recording (ZBR) technology to increase the capacity. A direct consequence of ZBR is that …

Mitra is a scalable storage manager that supports the display of continuous media data
types, eg, audio and video clips. It is a software based system that employs off-the-shelf …

A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as
continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a …

Streaming media servers: state-of-the-art design and applicationsVideo, audio, and other
streaming media (SM) represent the most demanding data types in a wide range of …

Query-by-Example is a high level non-procedural data base language which provides the
end user with a simplified unified interface for querying, updating, defining, and maintaining …

Web services are an emerging software technology that employ XML, eg, W3C's SOAP [1],
to share and exchange data. They are a building block of co-operative applications that …

Recently, zoning technique has been applied to disk technology to increase disk capacities.
As a side effect, data transfer rates from outer zones of a hard disk are much higher than …

A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as
continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a …

We provide a stochastic analysis of hard disk performance, including a closed form solution
for the average access time of a memory request. The model we use covers a wide range of …