— To cope with bursty arrivals of high-volume data, a DSMS has to shed load while minimizing the degradation of Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we show that this problem...
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...
Andreas Krause, Ram Rajagopal, Anupam Gupta, Carlo...
Designing videogames involves weaving together systems of rules, called game mechanics, which support and structure compelling player experiences. Thus a significant portion of ga...
A number of research systems have demonstrated the benefits of accompanying each request with a machine-checkable proof that the request complies with access-control policy — a...
Lujo Bauer, Limin Jia, Michael K. Reiter, David Sw...
Quorums are a basic construct in solving many fundamental distributed computing problems. One of the known ways of making quorums scalable and efficient is by weakening their int...