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Distributed Transactional Systems Cannot Be Fast

Rachid Guerraoui, Willy Zwaenepoel, Diego Didona, Junxiong Wang, Panagiota Fatourou

We prove that no fully transactional system can provide fast read transactions (including read-only ones that are considered the most frequent in practice). Specifically, to achieve fast read transactions, the system has to give up support of transactions ...

2019

Fast General Distributed Transactions with Opacity

Aleksandar Dragojevic, Stanko Novakovic, Georgios Chatzopoulos

Transactions can simplify distributed applications by hiding data distribution, concurrency, and failures from the application developer. Ideally the developer would see the abstraction of a single large machine that runs transactions sequentially and neve ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Quality assessment of an HDR dual-layer backward-compatible codec compared to uncompromised SDR and HDR solutions

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Anne-Flore Nicole Marie Perrin

Broadcasting high dynamic range (HDR) video has been demonstrated as largely preferred when compared to standard dynamic range (SDR), mainly due to its capability of representing more details in dark and bright regions. Additionally, progress over the last ...

2018

A TASTY Alternative

Martin Odersky, Eugene Burmako, Dmytro Petrashko

This document proposes a new serialization format for typed syntax trees of Scala programs. It aims to be ● compact: All numbers and references are length encoded, trees are inlined by default but may be shared. ● lazy: Trees can be explored from the top, ...

2016

Caradoc: a pragmatic approach to PDF parsing and validation

PDF has become a de facto standard for exchanging electronic documents, for visualization as well as for printing. However, it has also become a common delivery channel for malware, and previous work has highlighted features that lead to security issues. I ...

Ieee2016

Safety, Liveness and Parallelism in Concurrent Computing

Victor Bushkov

The correctness of a shared object, which can be accessed by several processes concurrently, is specified through two different kinds of properties - safety and liveness. When implementing a shared object it is important to specify its correctness in a suc ...

EPFL2015

Towards a highly effective and robust Web credibility evaluation system

Karl Aberer, Xin Liu

By leveraging crowdsourcing, Web credibility evaluation systems (WCESs) have become a promising tool to assess the credibility of Web content, e.g., Web pages. However, existing systems adopt a passive Way to collect users' credibility ratings, which incur ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Scalable and Reactive Programming for Semantic Web Developers

Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

The Semantic Web brings a powerful set of concepts, standards and ideas that are already changing the shape of the Web. However, in order to put these notions into practice we need to translate them into code. That is why the broad notion of programming th ...

CEUR-WS2015

Automated refactoring for size reduction of CSS style sheets

Martí Bosch Padrós

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a standard language for stylizing and formatting web documents. Its role in web user experience becomes increasingly important. However, CSS files tend to be designed from a result-driven point of view, without much attentio ...

2014

MARKDOWN

Nicolas Borboën

Français: Markdown est un langage de balisage léger qui permet d’écrire simplement du texte et de le convertir en code HTML pour sa publication sur un site web. Facile à lire, facile à écrire. English: Markdown is a small markup language that allows you to ...

2013

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