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Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
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Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Procedures for collective inference make simultaneous statistical judgments about the same variables for a set of related data instances. For example, collective inference could b...
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