This paper shares our experience in designing a web crawler that can download billions of pages using a single-server implementation and models its performance. We show that with ...
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
We are building Coral, a peer-to-peer content distribution system. Coral creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating wi...
Hypertext interfaces are considered appropriate for information exploration tasks. The prohibitively expensive link creation effort, however, prevents traditional hypertext interf...
Abstract. The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application req...