We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
Although the Web lets users freely browse and publish information, most Web information is unauthorized in contrast to conventional mass media. Therefore, it is not always credibl...
We study the problem of correlating micro-blogging activity with stock-market events, defined as changes in the price and traded volume of stocks. Specifically, we collect messa...
Eduardo J. Ruiz, Vagelis Hristidis, Carlos Castill...
This work presents a classification of weak models of distributed computing. We focus on deterministic distributed algorithms, and we study models of computing that are weaker ve...
We analyze the properties of Small-World networks, where links are much more likely to connect “neighbor nodes” than distant nodes. In particular, our analysis provides new re...