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PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Signed quorum systems
Abstract With n servers that independently fail with probability of p < 0.5, it is well known that the majority quorum system achieves the best availability among all quorum sys...
Haifeng Yu
PODC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Balanced binary trees for ID management and load balance in distributed hash tables
We present a low-cost, decentralized algorithm for ID management in distributed hash tables (DHTs) managed by a dynamic set of hosts. Each host is assigned an ID in the unit inter...
Gurmeet Singh Manku
SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Web Services for E-commerce: guaranteeing security access and quality of service
Being E-commerce one of the most critical Internet application, it is fundamental to employ technologies which guarantee not only secure transactions but also an adequate quality ...
Mario Bravetti, Roberto Lucchi, Gianluigi Zavattar...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A search engine for historical manuscript images
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, Victor Lavrenko
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Nonparametric belief propagation for self-calibration in sensor networks
Automatic self-calibration of ad-hoc sensor networks is a critical need for their use in military or civilian applications. In general, self-calibration involves the combination o...
Alexander T. Ihler, John W. Fisher III, Randolph L...