INTERFACE OF COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS: OPERATING PARAMETERS

Multiple-Interface Operating Systems Designed for Thin-Client Platforms

The rising cost of support and maintenance for desktop systems has fueled a growing interest in thin-client computing. Although most modern operating systems provide powerful abstractions to applications, the single interface they provided can’t meet the requirements of daedal applications. Especially for thin-client systems, the interface has seriously limited the performance of special applic...

Taming "Trusted Platforms" by Operating System Design

Experiences of the past have shown that common computing platforms lack security due to architectural problems and complexity. In this context, Microsoft Palladium (Pd) and TCPA are announced to be the next-generation computing platforms, and claimed to improve users’ security. However, people are concerned about those capabilities of TCPA/Pd that may allow content providers to gain too much po...

Communication: Effects of thermionic-gun parameters on operating modes in ultrafast electron microscopy

Ultrafast electron microscopes with thermionic guns and LaB6 sources can be operated in both the nanosecond, single-shot and femtosecond, single-electron modes. This has been demonstrated with conventional Wehnelt electrodes and absent any applied bias. Here, by conducting simulations using the General Particle Tracer code, we define the electron-gun parameter space within which various modes m...

Protection of Application Service Hosting Platforms: An Operating System Perspective

Web User Interface Generation for Multiple Platforms

In order to produce Web User Interfaces tailored for multiple platforms. This paper introduces an algorithm for semi-automated generation of user interface containers based on a task model. User interface containers are first derived from the configuration of a task model and then refined according to parameters characterizing user and computing platform. In this way, it is possible to render c...