Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender sys...
We show two severe problems with the state of the art in empirical computer system performance evaluation, observer effect and measurement context bias, and we outline the path to...
Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow two or more parties to communicate securely over a public network. Using cryptographic algorithms and protocols, VPNs provide security servic...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive realtime systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) distributed object computing (DOC) middleware must support application qual...
Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns, Mar...
In this paper, we present a multi-agent control method for a large-scale network system. We propose an extension of a token-based coordination technique to improve the tradeoff be...