The increasingly common practice of replicating datasets and using resources as distributed data stores in Grid environments has led to the problem of determining which replica ca...
Shopping on the Internet has become a convenient way of purchasing commodities of choice. A key contribution of agent technology will be to develop personal agents that can assist...
A scalable object location service can enable users to search for various objects in an environment where many small, networked devices are attached to objects. We investigate two...
This paper describes WBIIS Wavelet-Based Image Indexing and Searching, a new image indexing and retrieval algorithm with partial sketch image searching capability for large imag...
James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sh...
In this paper we present a quantitative study of data survival in peer to peer storage systems. We first recall two main redundancy mechanisms: replication and erasure codes, whic...