Webelieve that by the time of the workshopDeep Blue will havelost another matchto Garry Kasparov, showinglittle improvementover the previous one. But even if it is indeed a "...
Three years ago the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) decided to embrace netnews as a site-wide, multi-platform communications tool for the laboratory’s diverse user com...
Distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) is studied for wireless ad-hoc networks in which many links contend for the channel using random access before data transmissions. Simpl...
P. S. Chandrashekhar Thejaswi, Junshan Zhang, Man-...
The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
Crawling the web is deceptively simple: the basic algorithm is (a) Fetch a page (b) Parse it to extract all linked URLs (c) For all the URLs not seen before, repeat (a)?(c). Howev...