Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Creating and debugging programs for wireless embedded networks (WENs) is notoriously difficult. Macroprogramming is an emerging technology that aims to address this by providing ...
Tamim I. Sookoor, Timothy W. Hnat, Pieter Hooimeij...
Open source software is often considered to be secure. One factor in this confidence in the security of open source software lies in leveraging large developer communities to find...