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CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
SWAM: a family of access methods for similarity-search in peer-to-peer data networks
Peer-to-peer Data Networks (PDNs) are large-scale, selforganizing, distributed query processing systems. Familiar examples of PDN are peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, which su...
Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyrus Shahabi
OTM
2009
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Optimizing Data Management in Grid Environments
Grids currently serve as platforms for numerous scientific as well as business applications that generate and access vast amounts of data. In this paper, we address the need for e...
Antonis Zissimos, Katerina Doka, Antony Chazapis, ...
SPAA
1997
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Accessing Nearby Copies of Replicated Objects in a Distributed Environment
Consider a set of shared objects in a distributed network, where several copies of each object may exist at any given time. To ensure both fast access to the objects as well as e ...
C. Greg Plaxton, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Andréa...
IJSNET
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Supporting mobile device communications in the presence of broadcast servers
Abstract: Broadcast data dissemination is well-suited for mobile wireless environments, where bandwidth is scarce, and mutual interference must be minimized. However, broadcasting ...
Anup Mayank, Chinya V. Ravishankar
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Transforming clinic environments into information workspaces for patients
Although clinic environments are a primary location for exchanging information with clinicians, patients experience these spaces as harsh environments to access, use, exchange, an...
Kenton T. Unruh, Meredith M. Skeels, Andrea Civan-...