A quorum system is a family of sets (themselves called quorums), each pair of which intersect. In many distributed algorithms, the basic unit accessed by a client is a quorum of n...
Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Florian Oprea, Micha...
Heavy hitters, which are items occurring with frequency above a given threshold, are an important aggregation and summary tool when processing data streams or data warehouses. Hie...
John Hershberger, Nisheeth Shrivastava, Subhash Su...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Data mining techniques frequently find a large number of patterns or rules, which make it very difficult for a human analyst to interpret the results and to find the truly interes...
Kaidi Zhao, Bing Liu, Thomas M. Tirpak, Weimin Xia...
Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...