Panda (for Provenance and Data) is a new project whose goal is to develop a general-purpose system that unifies concepts from existing provenance systems and overcomes some limita...
Abstract Bloom filters are extensively used in distributed applications, especially in distributed databases and distributed information systems, to reduce network requirements and...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
Sketching techniques can provide approximate answers to aggregate queries either for data-streaming or distributed computation. Small space summaries that have linearity propertie...
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
The distributed task allocation problem occurs in domains like web services, the grid, and other distributed systems. In this problem, the system consists of servers and mediators...