Hash tables are one of the most fundamental data structures in computer science, in both theory and practice. They are especially useful in external memory, where their query perf...
Service portals are systems which expose a bundle of web services to the user, allowing the specification and subsequent execution of complex tasks defined over these individual...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Anindya Datta, Kaushik Dutta,...
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
Electronic commerce servers have a significant presence in today’s Internet. Corporations require good performance for their business processes. To date, little empirical evide...
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: In order to enhance their global business performance, organizations must be careful with the quality of their information since it is one of their main assets. Analogies to qual...