An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
Recent operating systems [12, 21, 26] have shown that decentralized information flow control (DIFC) can secure applications built from mostly untrusted code. This paper extends DI...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Silas Boyd-Wickizer, David Maz...
CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their n...
Implicitcoscheduling is a distributed algorithm fortime-sharing communicating processes in a cluster of workstations. By observing and reacting to implicit information, local sche...
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, David E. Culler, Alan M....
In this paper we suggest a new approach to analysis and design of IR systems. We argue for design space exploration in constructing IR systems and in analyzing the effects of ind...