With an increasing number of people that read, write and comment on blogs, the blogosphere has established itself as an essential medium of communication. A fundamental characteri...
This paper introduces dual-quorum replication, a novel data replication algorithm designed to support Internet edge services. Edge services allow clients to access Internet service...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Jiandan Zheng, Lorenzo Al...
Hyder supports reads and writes on indexed records within classical multi-step transactions. It is designed to run on a cluster of servers that have shared access to a large pool ...
This paper takes up the problem of understanding why we preserve some things passionately and discard others without thought. We briefly report on the theoretical literature relat...
William Odom, James Pierce, Erik Stolterman, Eli B...
Communication between natural or artificial agents relies on the use of a common vocabulary. Since sharing terms does not necessarily imply that the terms have exactly the same m...