Social network services have become a viable source of information for users. In Twitter, information deemed important by the community propagates through retweets. Studying the c...
Composite likelihood methods provide a wide spectrum of computationally efficient techniques for statistical tasks such as parameter estimation and model selection. In this paper,...
Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander T. Ihler, Pa...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...
Global consistency or Byzantine Agreement (BA) and reliable point-to-point communication are two of the most important and well-studied problems in distributed computing. Informal...
Prasant Gopal, Anuj Gupta, Pranav K. Vasishta, Piy...
Many efforts have been devoted to maximizing the network throughput with limited channel resources in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks. It has been believed that t...