There is currently great interest in building information mediators that can integrate informationfrom multipledata sources such as databases or Web sources. The query response ti...
Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cac...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Steven R. Soltis, Christopher ...
Abstract. With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distr...
We show how untrusted computers can be used to facilitate secure mobile data access. We discuss a novel architecture, data staging, that improves the performance of distributed ï¬...
Jason Flinn, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, Niraj Tolia, M...
The Symbolic Probabilistic Inference (SPI) Algorithm [D'Ambrosio, 19891 provides an efficient framework for resolving general queries on a belief network. It applies the conc...
Ross D. Shachter, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Brendan Del Fa...