In this paper, we address the problem of designing a scalable, accurate query processor for peerto-peer filesharing and similar distributed keyword search systems. Using a global...
Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Computer-based advisory systems form with their users composite, human-machine systems. Redundancy and diversity between the human and the machine are often important for the depe...
Lorenzo Strigini, Andrey Povyakalo, Eugenio Alberd...
Protocols that solve agreement problems are essential building blocks for fault tolerant distributed systems. While many protocols have been published, little has been done to ana...
The problem of interconnect architecture arises when an array of processors needs to be integrated on one chip. With the deep sub-micron technology, devices become cheap while wir...
Feng Zhou, Esther Y. Cheng, Bo Yao, Chung-Kuan Che...
Language run-time systems are routinely used to host potentially buggy or malicious codelets — software modules, agents, applets, etc. — in a secure environment. A number of t...