The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...
—We describe a semantic imitation model of social tagging that integrates formal representations of semantics and a stochastic tag choice process to explain and predict emergent ...
Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampallil, Ruogu Kang
Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
Modern database systems increasingly make use of networked storage. This storage can be in the form of SAN's or in the form of shared-nothing nodes in a cluster. One type of a...
Information diffusion, viral marketing, and collective classification all attempt to model and exploit the relationships in a network to make inferences about the labels of nodes....