The ability of fast similarity search at large scale is of great importance to many Information Retrieval (IR) applications. A promising way to accelerate similarity search is sem...
Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
We present a content delivery infrastructure distributing and maintaining software packages in a large organization. Our work based on a trace-based analysis of an existing softwa...
The use of cellular data networks is increasingly popular due to the widespread deployment of 3G technologies and the rapid adoption of smartphones, such as iPhone and GPhone. Bes...
Abiding geocast is a time stable geocast delivered to all nodes that are inside a destination region within a certain period of time. Services like position–based advertising, p...