Many communication-centred systems today rely on asynchronous messaging among distributed peers to make efficient use of parallel execution and resource access. With such asynchron...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
Abstract--In the context of a project aimed at the development of a cooperative and distributed Authoring System to facilitate the production, sharing, and integration of new and e...
Giuseppe Rizzo, Biagio Meirone, Pierluigi Di Nunzi...
Changes in the underpinning technologies for TEL is occurring at a pace that we have never before experienced, and this is unlikely to slow down. This necessitates a broader and mo...
Andrew Ravenscroft, Tom Boyle, John Cook, Andreas ...
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...