This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Abstract. Today, digital content is routinely distributed over the Internet, and consumed in devices based on open platforms. However, on open platforms users can run exploits, rec...
Parallel I/O plays a crucial role for most data-intensive applications running on massively parallel systems like Blue Gene/L that provides the promise of delivering enormous comp...
Hao Yu, Ramendra K. Sahoo, C. Howson, G. Almasi, J...
We describe the TiVo television show collaborative recommendation system which has been fielded in over one million TiVo clients for four years. Over this install base, TiVo curre...