Abstract. Ever-increasing demand for computing capability is driving the construction of ever-larger computer clusters, soon to be reaching tens of thousands of processors. Many fu...
Abstract. Search is until now a difficult problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing systems. In this paper, we propose to use adaptive metadata spreading to make search in P2P netw...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Ming Chen, Yongwei Wu
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for large-scale information retrieval and search systems due to scalability, fault-tolera...
People often misplace objects they care about. We present a system that generates reminders about objects left behind by tagging those objects with passive RFID tags. Readers posit...
Gaetano Borriello, Waylon Brunette, Matthew Hall, ...
Abstract. Can a system designed primarily for the purpose of databasetype storage and retrieval be used for information-retrieval tasks? This was one of the questions that led us t...