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REPLICATION
2010
15 years 2 months ago
A History of the Virtual Synchrony Replication Model
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Ken Birman
UIST
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions
Visual information pervades our environment. Vision is used to de cide everything from what we want to eat at a restaurant and which bus route to take to whether our clothes match...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chandrika Jayant, Hanjie Ji, Gr...
USS
2010
15 years 1 months ago
Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content
Oppressive regimes and even democratic governments restrict Internet access. Existing anti-censorship systems often require users to connect through proxies, but these systems are...
Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Santosh Vempala
EXACT
2009
15 years 1 months ago
Explanations and Arguments Based on Practical Reasoning
In this paper a representative example is chosen that is meant be fairly simple for illustrating the point that in a very common kind of instance, argument and explanation are mixe...
Douglas Walton
COMGEO
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
A new paradigm for integrated environmental monitoring
The vision of an integrated Earth observation system to help protect and sustain the planet and its inhabitants is significant and timely, and thus has been identified recently by...
Kevin Montgomery, Carsten W. Mundt