—In recent years, the rapid development of wireless communication allows us to enjoy more multimedia services via wireless network. However, due to lack of QoS support and charac...
Multicast is the ability of a communication network to accept a single message from an application and to deliver copies of the message to multiple recipients at different locatio...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
This paper presents a new model for understanding human behavior. In this model (FBM), behavior is a product of three factors: motivation, ability, and triggers, each of which has...