Abstract. Many current recommender systems exploit textual annotations (tags) provided by users to retrieve and suggest online contents. The text-based recommendation provided by t...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
Dedicated computing clusters are typically sized based on an expected average workload over a period of years, rather than on peak workloads, which might exist for relatively shor...
Michael Mattess, Christian Vecchiola, Rajkumar Buy...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
This paper investigates the problem of Partitioning Skew1 in MapReduce-based system. Our studies with Hadoop, a widely used MapReduce implementation, demonstrate that the presence ...
Shadi Ibrahim, Hai Jin, Lu Lu, Song Wu, Bingsheng ...
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...