Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in hierarchical parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or...
CiteULike is a collaborative tagging web site which lets users enter academic references into a database and describe these references using tags (categorizations of their own cho...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
In this paper, we address the problem of designing a scalable, accurate query processor for peerto-peer filesharing and similar distributed keyword search systems. Using a global...
Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Existing workflow management systems encapsulate the data and behavior of a process within its execution scope, preventing other processes from accessing this information until th...