Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...
Email client software is widely used for personal task management, a purpose for which it was not designed and is poorly suited. Past attempts to remedy the problem have focused o...
Michael Freed, Jaime G. Carbonell, Geoffrey J. Gor...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
With the growing use of distributed information networks, there is an increasing need for algorithmic and system solutions for data-driven knowledge acquisition using distributed,...
Doina Caragea, Jaime Reinoso, Adrian Silvescu, Vas...
We present STAR, a self-tuning algorithm that adaptively sets numeric precision constraints to accurately and efficiently answer continuous aggregate queries over distributed data...
Navendu Jain, Michael Dahlin, Yin Zhang, Dmitry Ki...