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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Antiquity: exploiting a secure log for wide-area distributed storage
Antiquity is a wide-area distributed storage system designed to provide a simple storage service for applications like file systems and back-up. The design assumes that all serve...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick R. Eaton, Byung-Gon Ch...
SIROCCO
2000
13 years 11 months ago
On time versus size for monotone dynamic monopolies in regular topologies
: We consider a well known distributed coloring game played on a simple connected graph: initially, each vertex is colored black or white; at each round, each vertex simultaneously...
Paola Flocchini, Rastislav Kralovic, Alessandro Ro...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Generalized direction changing fall control of humanoid robots among multiple objects
— Humanoid robots are expected to share human environments in the future and it is important to ensure safety of their operation. A serious threat to safety is the fall of a huma...
Umashankar Nagarajan, Ambarish Goswami
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Lumping Matrix Diagram Representations of Markov Models
Continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) have been used successfully to model the dependability and performability of many systems. Matrix diagrams (MDs) are known to be a space-ef...
Salem Derisavi, Peter Kemper, William H. Sanders