Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
The move towards integrated international Digital Libraries offers the opportunity of creating comprehensive data on citation networks. These data are not only invaluable pointers ...
In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
Play-on-demand is usually regarded as a feasible access mode for web content (including streaming video, web pages and so on), web services and some Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) a...
Very few computer systems that have been deployed in rural developing regions manage to stay operationally sustainable over the long term; most systems do not go beyond the pilot ...
Sonesh Surana, Rabin K. Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, M...