Searching very large collections can be costly in both computation and storage. To reduce this cost, recent research has focused on reducing the size (pruning) of the inverted ind...
We describe the implementation and experimental evaluation of a fault-tolerant leader election service for dynamic systems. Intuitively, distributed applications can use this serv...
Abstract. People consider other people who resemble them to be more persuasive. Users may consider embodied conversational agents, or ECAs, to be more persuasive if the agents rese...
Ian Li, Jodi Forlizzi, Anind K. Dey, Sara B. Kiesl...
Operating system courses teach students much more when they provide hands-on kernel-level project experience with a real operating system. However, enabling a large class of stude...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of computational resources available on the Internet. In FGCS, host computers allow guest jobs to utili...
Xiaojuan Ren, Seyong Lee, Rudolf Eigenmann, Saurab...