Our research is motivated by the scaleability, availability, and extensibility challenges in deploying open systems based, enterprise operational applications. We present Delta...
Van Oleson, Karsten Schwan, Greg Eisenhauer, Beth ...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...
Many peer-assisted content-distribution systems reward a peer based on the amount of data that this peer serves to others. However, validating that a peer did so is, to our knowled...
Michael K. Reiter, Vyas Sekar, Chad Spensky, Zheng...
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
The problems posed by mission-critical legacy systems - e.g., brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, non-extensibility, lack of openness - are well known, but practical solutions ...
Bing Wu, Deirdre Lawless, Jesus Bisbal, Ray Richar...