As Data Grids become more commonplace, large data sets are being replicated and distributed to multiple sites, leading to the problem of determining which replica can be accessed ...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Jennifer M. Schopf, Ian T. F...
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks have become a very popular method for content distribution in the past few years. By not enforcing strict rules on the network’s topology or c...
Brian D. Connelly, Christopher W. Bowron, Li Xiao,...
Noncontiguous data access is a very common access pattern in many scientific applications. Using POSIX I/O to access many pieces of noncontiguous data segments will generate a lot...
Data missing is a common problem in database query processing, which can cause bias or lead to inefficient analyses, and this problem happens more often in sensor databases. The re...
Data futures in a metacomputing system refer to data products that have not yet been created but which can be uniquely named and manipulated. We employ data flow mechanisms expres...