Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
Competitive parallel execution (CPE) is a simple yet attractive technique to improve the performance of sequential programs on multi-core and multi-processor systems. A sequential...
Abstract. Gradients are distributed distance estimates used as a building block in many sensor network applications. In large or long-lived deployments, it is important for the est...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, Mar...
MAX is a system that facilitates human-centric search of the physical world. It allows humans to search for and locate objects as and when they need it instead of organizing them ...
Whether designing a new system or modifying an existing one, engineers want to take the guesswork out of finding the best possible solution. While there are many analysis methods ...