Decentralized, distributed storage offers a way to reduce the impact of data silos as often
fostered by centralized cloud storage. While the intentions of this trend are not new, the topic …

Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

云计算作为下一代计算模式, 在科学计算和商业计算领域均发挥着重要作用,
受到当前学术界和企业界的广泛关注. 云计算环境下的分布存储主要研究数据在数据中心上的 …

Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) platforms and" serverless" cloud computing are becoming
increasingly popular. Current FaaS offerings are targeted at stateless functions that do …

Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the
majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites …

Nakamoto's famous blockchain protocol enables achieving consensus in a so-called
permissionless setting—anyone can join (or leave) the protocol execution, and the protocol …

Memcached is a well known, simple, in memory caching solution. This paper describes how
Facebook leverages memcached as a building block to construct and scale a distributed key …

We propose a new type of saliency—context-aware saliency—which aims at detecting the
image regions that represent the scene. This definition differs from previous definitions …

We introduce a simple data model and API tailored for serving the social graph, and TAO, an
implementation of this model. TAO is a geographically distributed data store that provides …

The integration of social networking concepts into the Internet of things has led to the Social
Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm, according to which objects are capable of establishing …