A collaborative filtering system at an e-commerce site or similar service uses data about aggregate user behavior to make recommendations tailored to specific user interests. We d...
Service providers like Google and Amazon are moving into the SaaS (Software as a Service) business. They turn their huge infrastructure into a cloud-computing environment and aggr...
Wai Kit Wong, David Wai-Lok Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos...
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
Sensitive data are increasingly available on-line through the Web and other distributed protocols. This heightens the need to carefully control access to data. Control means not o...
Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Leo A. Meyero...
Embedded systems are pervasive and frequently used for critical systems with time-dependent functionality. Dwyer et al. have developed qualitative specification patterns to facili...