The idea of allowing query users to relax their correctness requirements in order to improve performance of a data stream management system (e.g., location-based services and senso...
Reynold Cheng, Benjamin C. M. Kao, Alan Kwan, Suni...
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
"Have you ever played a side-scrolling action arcade game on your PC and wondered what it takes to program one? How do the programmers scroll their backgrounds so fast and mak...
In location-based services, it is common for a user to issue a query based on his/her current position. One such example is "find the available cabs within two miles of my cu...
—Social networking web sites, which allow users to create identities and link them to friends who have also created identities, are highly popular. Systems such as Facebook and M...
S. M. A. Abbas, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. Epem...