People accessing documents via the Internet typically experience latencies in retrieving content. We discuss continual-computation policies that dictate strategies for prefetching...
This paper addresses the problem of topic distillation on the World Wide Web, namely, given a typical user query to find quality documents related to the query topic. Connectivity...
WHIRL is an extensionof relational databasesthat canperform "soft joins" basedon the similarity of textual identifiers;thesesoftjoins extendthe traditional operationof j...
We have de ne a network programming model called Mobile Assistant Programming (MAP) for development and execution of communication applications in large scale networks of heteroge...
Large, complex projects face significant barriers to coordination and communication due to continuous, rapid changes during a project's lifecycle. Such changes must be tracke...