This paper introduces concast, a new network service. Concast is the inverse of multicast: multiple sources send messages toward the same destination, which results in a single me...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Amit Sehgal, Su...
The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio ca...
: The use of patterns in data management is not new: in data warehousing, data marts are simple conceptual schemas with exactly one core entity, describing facts, surrounded by mul...
Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Maesani, St...
This paper presents insights about design practices that can lead to effective and fun games for learning, gleaned from interviews with experienced game developers. We based our a...
We consider a monopolist expert offering a service with a `credence' characteristic. A credence service is one where the customer cannot verify, even after a purchase, whethe...
Laurens G. Debo, L. Beril Toktay, Luk N. Van Wasse...