In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
Knowledge plays a central role in intelligent systems. Manual knowledge acquisition is very inefficient and expensive. In this paper, we present (1) an automatic method to acquire...
Ping Chen, Wei Ding 0003, Chris Bowes, David Brown
Parallel computing is becoming increasing central and mainstream, driven both by the widespread availability of commodity SMP and high-performance cluster platforms, as well as th...
This paper explores the concept of early discard for interactive search of unindexed data. Processing data inside storage devices using downloaded searchlet code enables Diamond t...
Larry Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Rajiv Wickremesing...
Hot spots are a major obstacle to achieving scalability in the Internet. At the application layer, hot spots are usually caused by either (a) high demand for some data or (b) high...
Samrat Bhattacharjee, William C. Cheng, Cheng-Fu C...