In this paper we examine the feasibility of running message passing applications across clouds. Our on-going Unibus project aims to provide a flexible approach to provisioning and ...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
In recent years, the popularity of compressed music files and online music downloads has increased dramatically. Today's users own large digital collections of high quality m...
The Internet brings us access to multimedia databases with billions of data instances. The massive amount of data available to researchers and application developers brings both o...
During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...