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...
High-quality, personalized recommendations are a key feature in many online systems. Since these systems often have explicit knowledge of social network structures, the recommenda...
Reid Andersen, Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes...
Abstract. Estimating influence of a node is an important problem in social network analyses. We address this problem in a particular class of model for opinion propagation in whic...
The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
Software teams should follow a well defined goal and keep their work focused. Work fragmentation is bad for efficiency and quality. In this paper we empirically investigate the re...
Martin Pinzger, Nachiappan Nagappan, Brendan Murph...