Coalition formation is an important form of interaction in multiagent systems. It enables the agents to satisfy tasks that they would otherwise be unable to perform, or would perf...
Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. Inspired by classical work on databases, formal definitions of the semantics of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Michal Kapa...
There is currently considerable enthusiasm around the MapReduce (MR) paradigm for large-scale data analysis [17]. Although the basic control flow of this framework has existed in ...
Andrew Pavlo, Erik Paulson, Alexander Rasin, Danie...
Abstract. Stochastic model checking is a recent extension of traditional modelchecking techniques for the integrated analysis of both qualitative and quantitative system properties...
Many location-based services require rich and expressive query language support for filtering large amounts of information. In prominent location-based services thousands of conti...