In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...
In this paper, we characterize the user behavior in a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network. Our characterization is based on the results of an extensive passive measurement stu...
Alexander Klemm, Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Wa...
Abstract. We present a formalism for modeling replication in a distributed system with concurrent users sharing information. It is based on actions, which represent operations requ...
Marc Shapiro, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Nishith Krish...
We explore how the placement of control widgets (such as menus) affects collaboration and usability for co-located tabletop groupware applications. We evaluated two design alterna...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Win...
The paper introduces Self-Replicating Objects (SROs), a new nt programming abstraction. An SRO is implemented and used much like an ordinary .NET object and can expose arbitrary us...