We present a new approach to managing failures and evolution in large, complex distributed systems using runtime paths. We use the paths that requests follow as e through the syst...
Mike Y. Chen, Anthony Accardi, Emre Kiciman, David...
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...
Abstract. Recurrent connectivity, balanced between excitation and inhibition, is a general principle of cortical connectivity. We propose that balanced recurrence can be achieved b...
Janelle Szary, Bryan Kerster, Christopher T. Kello
Many producers of geographic information are now disseminating their data using open web service protocols, notably those published by the Open Geospatial Consortium. There are ma...
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...