In an e-commerce system, security, in particular authentication, is of paramount importance. Public-key Infrastructure is often used to enforce authentication and the property of ...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
We describe the TiVo television show collaborative recommendation system which has been fielded in over one million TiVo clients for four years. Over this install base, TiVo curre...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
Middleware-based database replication protocols require few or no changes in the database engine. As a consequence, they are more portable and flexible than kernel-based protocols...