Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliabilit...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
The ubiquitous SSH package has demonstrated the importance of secure remote login and execution. As remote execution tools grow in popularity, users require new features and exten...
Michael Kaminsky, Eric Peterson, Daniel B. Giffin,...
The idealdistributed file system wouldprovide all its userswith coherent,shared access tothe samesetoffiles,yetwould be arbitrarily scalable to provide more storage space and hi...
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Timothy Mann, Edward K. ...