This paper examines the application of Tornado Codes, a class of low density parity check (LDPC) erasure codes, to archival storage systems based on massive arrays of idle disks (...
—Teaching a robot new skills may require that the teacher scaffolds the teaching experience appropriately. However, due to inherent assumptions made by a human teacher the scaffo...
Discrete-event (DE) models are formal system specifications that have analyzable deterministic behaviors. Using a global, consistent notion of time, DE components communicate via...
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
Motivated by the growth of various networked systems as potential market places, we study market models wherein, owing to the size of the markets, transactions take place between l...
Atish Das Sarma, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Sreenivas ...