Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
Given the large communication overheads characteristic of modern parallel machines, optimizations that eliminate, hide or parallelize communication may improve the performance of ...
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
Sensor networks present a number of novel programming challenges for application developers. Their inherent limitations of computational power, communication bandwidth, and energy...
Generalization tasks are important for continual improvement to the design of an evolving code base, eliminating redundancy where it has accumulated. An important step in generali...