This paper describes Project Kittyhawk, an undertaking at IBM Research to explore the construction of a nextgeneration platform capable of hosting many simultaneous web-scale work...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing offers many attractive features, such as self-organization, load-balancing, availability, fault tolerance, and anonymity. However, it also faces some ...
The Dryad and DryadLINQ systems offer a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. They generalize previous execution environments such as SQL and MapReduce in...
This paper outlines a retail sales prediction and product recommendation system that was implemented for a chain of retail stores. The relative importance of consumer demographic ...
The coming millenium will be characterized by the availability of multiple information appliances that make ubiquitous information access an accepted fact of life. The ability to ...