Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
More and more documents on the World Wide Web are based on templates. On a technical level this causes those documents to have a quite similar source code and DOM tree structure. G...
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
Communities of practice (COPs) have been around since the founding of the first social networks many millennia ago. Organizations around the world over the last two decades have l...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...