A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by rebooting, even when the exact failure causes are unknown. However, rebooting can be expen...
George Candea, Shinichi Kawamoto, Yuichi Fujiki, G...
Linux distributions often include package management tools such as apt-get in Debian or yum in RedHat. Using information about package dependencies and conflicts, such tools can d...
Chris Tucker, David Shuffelton, Ranjit Jhala, Sori...
In this paper, we discuss several facets of optimization in cloud computing, the corresponding challenges and propose an architecture for addressing those challenges. We consider ...
Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Johnny Wong, Joa...
In this paper we present CUTER, a system that processes HTML pages in order to extract the useful text from them. The mechanism is focalized on HTML pages that include news articl...
George Adam, Christos Bouras, Vassilis Poulopoulos
Young people interact with games, animations, and simulations all of the time. But few of them are able to create interactive media. The obstacle: traditional programming language...
Mitchel Resnick, Mary Flanagan, Caitlin Kelleher, ...