MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
Abstract. Existing localization techniques such as GPS have fundamental limitations which preclude deployment in urban canyons or areas with inconsistent network availability. Augm...
Jeffrey Hemmes, Douglas Thain, Christian Poellabau...
Using internet for media-based real-time collaboration has become widespread activity. In this paper, we present a framework called CoUniverse, designed for building realtime user...
In recent years, integrated spatialized voice services have become an appealing application for networked virtual environments (NVE), e.g., Second Life. With a spatialized voice s...
Design and development scalability, in any engineering, requires information hiding and a specific composition mechanism in which composite items are made-up of other items. This ...