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Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Most space-sharing parallel computers presently operated by high-performance computing centers use batch-queuing systems to manage processor allocation. Because these machines are...
d Abstract:: ACM SIGMOD Record 22 (4), Dec. 1993) RM93 Rahm, E., Marek, R.: Analysis of Dynamic Load Balancing Strategies for Parallel Shared Nothing Database Systems. Proc 19th VL...
Current computer security systems are based on the premise that once a user presents valid credentials to the authentication system (e.g. valid ID and password), they are granted ...