Previous research has shown that hypertext links may be a useful source of evidence for document contents and relevance, but these evidence are rather difficult to represent and co...
In the context of large decentralized many-to-many communication systems it is impractical to provide realistic and hard bounds for certain QoS metrics including latency bounds. Ne...
M. Adnan Tariq, Boris Koldehofe, Gerald G. Koch, K...
Supercomputing systems must be able to reliably and efficiently complete their assigned workloads, even in the presence of failures. This paper proposes a system that allows the ...
Adam J. Oliner, Larry Rudolph, Ramendra K. Sahoo, ...
Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...
Anonymity means that the identity of the user performing a certain action is maintained secret. The protocols for ensuring anonymity often use random mechanisms which can be descr...