Existing distributed hash tables provide efficient mechanisms for storing and retrieving a data item based on an exact key, but are unsuitable when the search key is similar, but ...
This paper describes the operational characteristics of “CompTorrent”, a general purpose distributed computing platform that provides a low entry cost to creating new distribut...
Increasingly, companies recognize that most of their important information does not exist in relational stores but in documents. For a long time, textual information has been rela...
: Managing image data in a database system using metadata has been practiced since the last two decades. However, describing an image fully and adequately with metadata is practica...
Today‘s use of mobile phones is mostly for coordination purposes. It seems reasonable to assume that 3G and 4G high bandwidth systems will be used in a similar way. This paper th...