Placeshifting systems stream videos from the home to a single remote user using the limited upstream capacity of the home broadband link. We analyze the behavior of two placeshift...
As social computing systems persist over time, the user experiences and interactions they support may change. One type of social computing system, Social Network Sites (SNSs), are...
We investigate the problem of learning a widely-used latent-variable model – the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or “topic” model – using distributed computation, where ...
David Newman, Arthur Asuncion, Padhraic Smyth, Max...
We present a novel peer-to-peer backup technique that allows computers connected to the Internet to back up their data cooperatively: Each computer has a set of partner computers,...
Mark Lillibridge, Sameh Elnikety, Andrew Birrell, ...
—In distributed real-time embedded systems (DRE), it is common to model an application as a set of task chains. Each chain is activated cyclically and must complete before an end...