The construction of interactive server-side Web applications differs substantially from the construction of traditional interactive programs. In contrast, existing Web programming...
Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, Paul T. Grau...
MapReduce is a computing paradigm that has gained a lot of popularity as it allows non-expert users to easily run complex analytical tasks at very large-scale. At such scale, task...
Reciprocity is a pervasive concept that plays an important role in governing people’s behavior, judgments, and thus their social interactions. In this paper we present an analys...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...