This paper investigates fault tolerance issues in Bistro, a wide area upload architecture. In Bistro, clients first upload their data to intermediaries, known as bistros. A destin...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
The concept of unreliable failure detector was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a mechanism that provides information about process failures. This mechanism has been used to sol...
Scientific computing has seen an immense growth in recent years. The Message Passing Interface (MPI) has become the de-facto standard for parallel programming model for distribute...
We present a simple method for transferring dependency parsers from source languages with labeled training data to target languages without labeled training data. We first demons...