—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
—Large graphs are used in many applications, such as social networking. The management of these graphs poses new challenges because such graphs are too large to fit on a single ...
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
: Among Internet applications, blogs are known for its exponential growth in recent years. Blogs can be viewed as a kind of information system which people used to communicate with...
As a result of the recent explosion of sensor-equipped mobile phone market, the phenomenal growth of Internet and social network users, and the large deployment of sensor network i...