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CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A self-organized, fault-tolerant and scalable replication scheme for cloud storage
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
CLOUD
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
RACS: a case for cloud storage diversity
The increasing popularity of cloud storage is leading organizations to consider moving data out of their own data centers and into the cloud. However, success for cloud storage pr...
Hussam Abu-Libdeh, Lonnie Princehouse, Hakim Weath...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
125views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Information asymmetries in pay-per-bid auctions
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
164views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Automated market-making in the large: the gates hillman prediction market
We designed and built the Gates Hillman Prediction Market (GHPM) to predict the opening day of the Gates and Hillman Centers, the new computer science buildings at Carnegie Mellon...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm
GECCO
2010
Springer
254views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
14 years 1 months ago
Evolving viral marketing strategies
One method of viral marketing involves seeding certain consumers within a population to encourage faster adoption of the product throughout the entire population. However, determi...
Forrest Stonedahl, William Rand, Uri Wilensky