Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
This paper describes an evaluation of a new game concept, Lecture Quiz, which can be used in lectures in higher education to promote strong student participation and variation in ...
Abstract-Requirement: Clients should experience high-availability when accessing network services. Availability should be transparent and not require altering programs. Problem: Av...
Background: In biological and medical domain, the use of web services made the data and computation functionality accessible in a unified manner, which helped automate the data pi...
Wei Tan, Ravi K. Madduri, Aleksandra Nenadic, Stia...