In this paper we present the work undertaken by the Advanced Interfaces Group at the University of Manchester into the design and development of a system to support large numbers ...
Steve Pettifer, Jonathan Cook, James Marsh, Adrian...
Bloom filters make use of a "probabilistic" hash-coding method to reduce the amount of space required to store a hash set. A Bloom filter offers a trade-off between its ...
Mark C. Little, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Neil A. Sp...
Developers of mission-critical distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems face a fundamental tension between (1) the performance gains achievable with hand-crafted optimizat...
Christopher D. Gill, Ron Cytron, Douglas C. Schmid...
THOR is a persistent object store that provides a powerful programming model. THOR ensures that persistent objects are accessed only by calling their methods and it supports atomic...
Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Liuba Shrira, Atul ...
We describe here a method for automatically identifying word sense variation in a dated collection of historical books in a large digital library. By leveraging a small set of kno...