When designing distributed web services, there are three properties that are commonly desired: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. It is impossible to achieve all ...
It has been shown that sets of convergent operators with a shared fixed point can simulate autonomic control mechanisms, but many questions remain about this management technique....
Replication combined with explicit management of data integrity constraints can be used to enhance availability of object-oriented, data-centric distributed systems when node and ...
Sparsity or parsimony of statistical models is crucial for their proper interpretations, as in sciences and social sciences. Model selection is a commonly used method to find such...
Despite the extensive use of caching techniques, the Web is overloaded. While the caching techniques currently used help some, it would be better to use different caching and repli...
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Ihor Kuz, Maarten van Steen,...