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ICPP
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Search Using a Fault-Tolerant Overlay in Unstructured P2P Systems
Gnutella overlays have evolved to use a two-tier topology. However, we observed that the new topology had only achieved modest improvements in search success rates. Also, the new ...
William Acosta, Surendar Chandra
ICMI
2005
Springer
162views Biometrics» more  ICMI 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed pointing for multimodal collaboration over sketched diagrams
A problem faced by groups that are not co-located but need to collaborate on a common task is the reduced access to the rich multimodal communicative context that they would have ...
Paulo Barthelmess, Edward C. Kaiser, Xiao Huang, D...
BMCBI
2008
150views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
BibGlimpse: The case for a light-weight reprint manager in distributed literature research
Background: While text-mining and distributed annotation systems both aim at capturing knowledge and presenting it in a standardized form, there have been few attempts to investig...
Thomas Tüchler, Golda Velez, Alexandra Graf, ...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
190views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
OLTP through the looking glass, and what we found there
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...
FTDCS
2003
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Looking for a Common View for Mobile Worlds
This paper considers central issues of distributed computing in a mobile environment. Its aim is to light on the first brick of a common view for mobile systems. We pool together...
Maria Gradinariu, Michel Raynal, Gwendal Simon