Fault-tolerant (FT) distributed protocols (such as group membership, consensus, etc.) represent fundamental building blocks for many practical systems, e.g., the Google File System...
The construction process is subject to an array of influences, both from internal and external environments, which makes the process performance uncertain and difficult to predict...
This paper describes the system architecture development process in an international ICT company, which is building a comprehensive e-business system for its customers. The implem...
System combination has emerged as a powerful method for machine translation (MT). This paper pursues a joint optimization strategy for combining outputs from multiple MT systems, ...
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...