This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
To enable information integration, schema matching is a critical step for discovering semantic correspondences of attributes across heterogeneous sources. As a new attempt, this p...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure, and is one of the few examples of a robust, highlyscalable, and operational distributed system....
Jeffrey Pang, James Hendricks, Aditya Akella, Robe...
In this paper, we propose and investigate a new user scenario for face annotation, in which users are allowed to multi-select a group of photographs and assign names to these phot...
Lei Zhang, Yuxiao Hu, Mingjing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, Ho...
Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often un...
Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert M...