Over the last few years various scientific experiments and Grid projects have developed different catalogs for keeping track of their data files. Some projects use specialized ...
DRM has been widely promoted as a means to enforce copyright. In many previous papers, it has been argued that DRM gives too much power to rights holders and actually goes beyond ...
Abstract: Among other things, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are very useful for managing large amounts of widely distributed data. Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) offer a highly scalabl...
A surface is often approximated by a network of triangular facets. In the absence of a precise mathematical description of the underlying surface all information about surface pro...
File I/O data is interpreted by high performance parallel/distributed applications mostly as a sequence of arbitrary bits. This leads to the situation where data is ’volatile’...