GPS-enabled mobile devices are a quickly growing market and users are starting to share their location information with each other through services such as Google Latitude. Locati...
This paper evaluates the suitability of the MapReduce model for multi-core and multi-processor systems. MapReduce was created by Google for application development on data-centers...
The amount of information available online has grown enormously over the past decade. Fortunately, computing power, disk capacity, and network bandwidth have also increased dramat...
Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, Lawrence Page, Terry ...
Two recent projects at ORA have used a blackboard framework during system design.1 DANA is a multimedia network monitoring system, while MARRS is a real-time passive radar system....
Many decentralized and peer-to-peer applications require some sort of data management. Besides P2P file-sharing, there are already scenarios (e.g. BRICKS project [3]) that need m...