We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
Modern single and multi-processor computer systems incorporate, either directly or through a LAN, a number of storage devices with diverse performance characteristics. These stora...
Failure detectors represent a very important building block in distributed applications. The speed and the accuracy of the failure detectors is critical to the performance of the ...
NEBLO is a library and runtime system based on a structured overlay network. The API presented by NEBLO offers simple primitives and powerful mechanisms for programming generic p...
This workshop provides a forum for an overview, project presentations, and discussion of the research fostered and funded initially by the NSF Next Generation Software (NGS) Progr...