There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
—The recent surge of popularity has established Mashups as an important category of Web 2.0 applications. Mashups are essentially Web services that are often created by end-users...
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. ...
Emulab is a testbed for networked and distributed systems experimentation. Two guiding principles of its design are realism and control of experimentation. There is an inherent te...
Anton Burtsev, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Mike Hible...
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...