There is a growing need for techniques that provide alternative means to access Web content and services, be it the ability to browse the Web through a voice interface like the Ph...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the project Urbi et Orbi, a framework to dynamically manage distributed virtual environments (DVEs). This framework relies on a dedicated script...
A three-dimensional virtual world simulation is described, where evolution takes place and it is possible to investigate behaviors of creatures in real-time. Bodies of these creatu...
This paper presents a scalable leader election protocol for large process groups with a weak membership requirement. The underlying network is assumed to be unreliable but characte...
Indranil Gupta, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Bi...
A substantial portion of web traffic consists of queries to database web servers. Unfortunately, a common technique to improve web scalability, proxy caching, is ineffective for da...
Qiong Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Rajasekar Krishnam...