We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
ct This paper presents an approach to exploit free text descriptions of TV programmes as available from EPG data sets for a recommendation system that takes the content of programm...
: We present a practical approach to nonparametric cluster analysis of large data sets. The number of clusters and the cluster centres are automatically derived by mode seeking wit...
A shared data structure is lock-free if its operations do not require mutual exclusion. If one process is interrupted in the middle of an operation, other processes will not be pr...
A wad-free implementation of a data object in shared memory is one that guarantees that any process can complete any operation in a finite number of steps, regardless of the execu...