What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Existing data cleaning methods work on the basis of computing the degree of similarity between nearby records in a sorted database. High recall is achieved by accepting records wi...
We present Tigris, a high-performance computation and I/O substrate for clusters of workstations that is implemented entirely in Java. Tigris automatically balances resource load a...
We introduce a language for creating and manipulating certificates, that is, digitally signed data based on public key cryptography, and a system for revoking certificates. Our ap...
This paper will attempt to examine the industry requirements for shared network data storage and sustained high speed (10’s to 100’s to thousands of megabytes per second) netw...