The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research...
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
Abstract We present OntoWiki, a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as a...
The Web is rapidly moving towards a platform for mass collaboration in content production and consumption. Fresh content on a variety of topics, people, and places is being create...
Yih-Farn Robin Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David ...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...