As the disks typically found in personal computers grow larger, protecting data by replicating it on a collection of “peer” systems rather than on dedicated high performance s...
Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutch...
Abstract. Our work involves the development of a prototype Geographical Information System GIS as an example of the use of process networks as a well-de ned high-level semantic mod...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Abstract-- With increasing richness in features such as personalization of content, web applications are becoming more complex and hence compute intensive. Traditional approaches t...
Large-scale distributed systems provide an attractive scalable infrastructure for network applications. However, the loosely-coupled nature of this environment can make data acces...