Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
For many data providers, the “crown jewels” of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive cata...
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Group elevator scheduling is an NP-hard sequential decision-making problem with unbounded state spaces and substantial uncertainty. Decision-theoretic reasoning plays a surprising...
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...