: When technologies are introduced into collaborative settings, people are often required to work together in new, unfamiliar ways. This can lead to problems of resistance, and eve...
John Halloran, Yvonne Rogers, Tom Rodden, Ian Tayl...
Hadoop has become an attractive platform for large-scale data analytics. In this paper, we identify a major performance bottleneck of Hadoop: its lack of ability to colocate relat...
Clustering is a well known technique that allows scalability and fault tolerance in distributed systems. In the J2EE framework, clustering can be used to improve the performance a...
A key performance measure for the World Wide Web is the speed with which content is served to users. As traffic on the Web increases, users are faced with increasing delays and fa...
David R. Karger, Alex Sherman, Andy Berkheimer, Bi...
One of the major challenges of video game design is to have appropriate difficulty levels for users in order to maximize the entertainment value of the game. Game players may lose...
Chang Yun, Dvijesh Shastri, Ioannis Pavlidis, Zhig...