We present a web computing library (PUBWCL) in Java that allows to execute tightly coupled, massively parallel algorithms in the bulk-synchronous (BSP) style on PCs distributed ove...
Olaf Bonorden, Joachim Gehweiler, Friedhelm Meyer ...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
Usenet may be regarded as the world’s largest conversational application, with over 17,000 newsgroups and 3 million users. Despite its ubiquity and popularity, however, we know ...
Steve Whittaker, Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill...
We describe ongoing work on I2I, a system aimed at fostering opportunistic communication among users viewing or manipulating content on the Web and in productivity applications. U...
Jay Budzik, Shannon Bradshaw, Xiaobin Fu, Kristian...
For Deaf people, access to the mobile telephone network in the United States is currently limited to text messaging, forcing communication in English as opposed to American Sign L...