Traditionally, distributed Web servers have used two strategies for allocating files on server nodes: full replication and full distribution. While full replication provides a high...
Abstract. The Ubiquitous Web requires novel programming paradigms and distributed architectures for the support of advanced services to a multitude of user devices and profiles. I...
This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a s...
Abstract. Folksonomies have become a powerful tool to describe, discover, search, and navigate online resources (e.g., pictures, videos, blogs) on the Social Web. Unlike taxonomies...
The most commonly deployed web service applications employ client-server communication patterns, with clients running remotely and services hosted in data centers. In this paper, ...
Ken Birman, Jared Cantwell, Daniel Freedman, Qi Hu...