For speed and convenience, applications routinely cache XML data locally, and access it through standard parser (SAX) or tree (DOM) interfaces. When the source of this data is a r...
Production of a large-scale software system involves quite a few software components. It is very common to develop such software components in a distributed environment consisting...
This paper describes a decentralized consistency protocol for survivable storage that exploits local data versioning within each storage-node. Such versioning enables the protocol...
Garth R. Goodson, Jay J. Wylie, Gregory R. Ganger,...
When a database is defined as views over autonomous sources, inconsistencies with respect to global integrity constraints are to be expected. This paper investigates the possibili...
In a peer-to-peer inference system, there is no centralized control or hierarchical organization: each peer is equivalent in functionality and cooperates with other peers in order...
Philippe Chatalic, Gia Hien Nguyen, Marie-Christin...