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SIGMOD
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2004
ACM
We present a technique that masks failures in a cluster to provide high availability and fault-tolerance for long-running, parallelized dataflows. We can use these dataflows to im...
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PODS
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2005
ACM
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
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PODS
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2008
ACM
A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in ...
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PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
This research is motivated by emerging, real-world wireless sensor network applications for monitoring and control. We examine the benefits and costs of caching data for such appli...
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MOBISYS
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper investigates an application of mobile sensing: detecting and reporting the surface conditions of roads. We describe a system and associated algorithms to monitor this i...