Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon. com, one of
the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significant …

This paper presents a unified framework for object detection, segmentation, and
classification using regions. Region features are appealing in this context because:(1) they …

In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute‐
intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To further the …

Several distributed peer-to-peer applications require weakly-consistent knowledge of
process group membership information at all participating processes. SWIM is a generic …

With the immense growth of internet and its users, Cloud computing, with its incredible
possibilities in ease, Quality of service and on-interest administrations, has turned into a …

The running times of many computational science applications, such as protein-folding
using ab initio methods, are much longer than the mean-time-to-failure of high-performance …

The broad landscape of new technologies currently being explored makes the current times
very exciting for computer systems research. The community is actively researching an …

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Failure detection (FD) is an important issue for supporting dependability in distributed
healthcare systems to guarantee continuous, safe, secure, and dependable operation, and …

The Internet and World Wide Web have revolutionized access to information. Users now
store information across multiple platforms from personal computers to smartphones and …