A short theatrical exaggeration (but not too much) which describes practical problems with variability as experienced by real-world software developers. Real issue, there are no p...
We demonstrate a system built using probabilistic techniques that allows for remarkably accurate localization across our entire office building using nothing more than the built-...
Andreas Haeberlen, Eliot Flannery, Andrew M. Ladd,...
We analyze the properties of Small-World networks, where links are much more likely to connect “neighbor nodes” than distant nodes. In particular, our analysis provides new re...
A popular solution to internet performance problems is the widespread caching of data. Many caching algorithms have been proposed in the literature, most attempting to optimize fo...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...