The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
he significant increase in the available computational power that took place in recent decades has been accompanied by a growing interest in the application of the evolutionary ap...
Social annotation has gained increasing popularity in many Web-based applications, leading to an emerging research area in text analysis and information retrieval. This paper is c...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
A method is given for constructing a max register, a linearizable, wait-free concurrent data structure that supports a write operation and a read operation that returns the larges...