Price dispersion, the variance in price for identical products across retailers, is a persistent feature of Internetbased markets, even those mediated by shopping agents (shopbots...
MEMS-based storage is a new, non-volatile storage technology currently under development. It promises fast data access, high throughput, high storage density, small physical size,...
Bo Hong, Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Scott A. Brandt, Da...
Increasingly scientific discoveries are driven by analyses of massively distributed bulk data. This has led to the proliferation of high-end mass storage systems, storage area clu...
Abstract Asynchronous invocations are an important functionality in the context of distributed object frameworks, because in many situations clients should not block during remote ...
Query answering over commonsense knowledge bases typically employs a first-order logic theorem prover. While first-order inference is intractable in general, provers can often b...
Bill MacCartney, Sheila A. McIlraith, Eyal Amir, T...