The MapReduce distributed programming framework has become popular, despite evidence that current implementations are inefficient, requiring far more hardware than a traditional r...
Eaman Jahani, Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher R&...
Developing complex distributed systems is a non-trivial task. It is even more difficult when the systems need to dynamically reconfigure the distributed functionalities or tasks...
Linda Ariani Gunawan, Michael Vogel, Frank Alexand...
This paper examines E. W. Beth’s work in the philosophy of physics, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. Beth saw the philosophy of physics first of all as an ...
A formal two-phase model of democratic policy deliberation is presented, in which in the first phase sufficient and necessary criteria for proposals to be accepted are determine...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Henry Prakken, Wietske V...
We introduce a new normal form, called essential tuple normal form (ETNF), for relations in a relational database where the constraints are given by functional dependencies and jo...