We study the feasibility and cost of implementing --a fundamental failure detector at the core of many algorithms--in systems with weak reliability and synchrony assumptions. Intui...
High performance scientific computing software is of critical international importance as it supports scientific explorations and engineering. Software development in this area is...
Robert Palmer, Steve Barrus, Yu Yang, Ganesh Gopal...
Technology designers often strive to design systems that are flexible enough to be used in a wide range of situations. Software engineers, in particular, are trained to seek gener...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang