To provide a computing system to be dependable fault tolerance mechanisms have to be included. Especially massive parallelism represents a new challenge for fault tolerance. In th...
We present the PPOST-architecture (Persistent Parallel Object Store) for main-memory database systems on parallel computers, that is suited for applications with challenging perfor...
On-line casinos have experienced a great expansion since the generalized use of Internet started. There exist in the literature several proposals of systems allowing secure remote ...
Abstract. Collaborative tagging systems like Flickr and del.icio.us provide centralized content annotation and sharing which is simple to use and attracts many people. A combinatio...
The telling and understanding of stories is a universal part of human experience. If we could reproduce even part of the process inside a computer, it could expand the possibiliti...