We explore the creation of a metacomputer by the aggregation of independent sites. Joining a metacomputer is voluntary, and hence it has to be an endeavor that mutually benefits a...
Abstract-- In recent years, uncertain data management applications have grown in importance because of the large number of hardware applications which measure data approximately. F...
Abstract. Multicasting is increasingly used as an efficient communication mechanism for group-oriented applications in the Internet. In order to offer secrecy for multicast applic...
Commercial Scale-Out is a new research project at IBM Research. Its main goal is to investigate and develop technologies for the use of large scale parallelism in commercial appli...
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...