Garbage collection can be a performance bottleneck in large distributed, multi-threaded applications. Applications may produce millions of objects during their lifetimes and may i...
The Modeler is designed using a learner-centered approach [5], with scaffolding to address the specific needs of learners. Scaffolding [3] is an educational term that refers to pro...
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
In this paper, we address the server selection problem for streaming applications on the Internet. The architecture we consider is similar to the content distribution networks con...
This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protoc...