Workstations typically depend on remote servers accessed over a network for such services as mail, printing, storing files, booting, and time. The availability of these remote ser...
Andy Hisgen, Andrew Birrell, Timothy Mann, Michael...
The software industry is increasingly facing the issues of understanding and maintaining a particular type of software systems, namely distributed systems. While these systems are...
—Load balancing is a common approach for task assignment in distributed architectures. In this paper, we show that the degree of inefficiency in load balancing designs is highly...
This paper presents HAC, a novel technique for managing the client cache in a distributed, persistent object storage system. HAC is a hybrid between page and object caching that c...
Miguel Castro, Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C...
Web Usage Mining (WUM), a natural application of data mining techniques to the data collected from user interactions with the web, has greatly concerned both academia and industry ...