A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
In order to develop intelligent systems that attain the trust of their users, it is important to understand how users perceive such systems and develop those perceptions over time...
Joe Tullio, Anind K. Dey, Jason Chalecki, James Fo...
Modern storage systems are sophisticated. Simple directattached storage devices are giving way to storage systems that are shared, flexible, virtualized and network-attached. Toda...
Oguzhan Ozmen, Kenneth Salem, Mustafa Uysal, M. Ho...
Recent gains in energy-efficiency of new-generation NAND flash storage have strengthened the case for in-network storage by data-centric sensor network applications. This paper ...
Gaurav Mathur, Peter Desnoyers, Deepak Ganesan, Pr...
semantic knowledge all concurrent partitionedAbstract updates to an object must be treated as conflicting, andOptimistic replication is an important technique for merged manually b...