In this paper we introduce the idea of organizing systems. Through a number of examples from an ongoing ethnographic study of family life, we suggest that organizing systems come ...
We introduce transactors, a fault-tolerant programming model for composing loosely-coupled distributed components running in an unreliable environment such as the internet into sy...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
Schema matching is a critical problem for integrating heterogeneous information sources. Traditionally, the problem of matching multiple schemas has essentially relied on finding ...
Structured P2P systems have been developed for constructing applications at internet scale in cooperative environments and exhibit a number of desirable features such as scalabili...