Modern scientific experiments can generate large amounts of data, which may be replicated and distributed across multiple resources to improve application performance and fault to...
We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core ...
The ever growing request for digital information raises the need for content distribution architectures providing high storage capacity, data availability and good performance. Wh...
Building dependable distributed systems using ad hoc methods is a challenging task. Without proper support, an application programmer must face the daunting requirement of having ...
Jennifer Ren, Michel Cukier, Paul Rubel, William H...
The need for collaboration and information sharing has been recently growing dramatically with the convergence of outsourcing and offshoring, the increasing need to cut costs thro...