We describe StartMobile, a prototype system that enables users of cellular telephones and other mobile devices to access information, create information and execute commands on th...
Boris Katz, Gary C. Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Federi...
Recent studies have shown that programming in a Partition Global Address Space (PGAS) language can be more productive than programming in a message passing model. One reason for th...
Large-scale websites are increasingly moving from relational databases to distributed key-value stores for high request rate, low latency workloads. Often this move is motivated n...
Michael Armbrust, Stephen Tu, Armando Fox, Michael...
Threads have been present in programming languages for some time now. However, they have a bad image among software developers because they lead to unreliable applications. Most o...
The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...