This paper introduces a new consistency metric, Network Imprecision (NI), to address a central challenge in largescale monitoring systems: safeguarding correctness despite node an...
Navendu Jain, Prince Mahajan, Dmitry Kit, Praveen ...
Operating systems are complex and their behavior depends on many factors. Source code, if available, does not directly help one to understand the OS's behavior, as the behavi...
Nikolai Joukov, Avishay Traeger, Rakesh Iyer, Char...
Relational database systems have traditionally optimized for I/O performance and organized records sequentially on disk pages using the N-ary Storage Model (NSM) (a.k.a., slotted ...
Anastassia Ailamaki, David J. DeWitt, Mark D. Hill
Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka "null values") is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through media...
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...