Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
This paper develops a high-performance, Internet-wide service discovery tool, which we call IRLscanner, whose main design objectives have been to maximize politeness at remote net...
As increasing the performance of single-threaded processors becomes increasingly difficult, consumer desktop processors are moving toward multi-core designs. One way to enhance th...
Just-in-time (JIT) compilation has previously been used in many applications to enable standard software binaries to execute on different underlying processor architectures. Howev...
A number of existing information retrieval systems propose the notion of query context to combine the knowledge of query and user into retrieval to reveal the most exact descripti...
Keke Cai, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Peng Huang, Zhimin...