We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
In highly interactive dynamic web database systems, user satisfaction determines their success. In such systems, userrequested web pages are dynamically created by executing a numb...
Shenoda Guirguis, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Panos K. Chry...
Abstract. We are witnessing a dramatic increase in the use of datacentric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and various ...
Keyword queries over structured databases are notoriously ambiguous. No single interpretation of a keyword query can satisfy all users, and multiple interpretations may yield over...
Elena Demidova, Peter Fankhauser, Xuan Zhou, Wolfg...
Publish/Subscribe systems have become a prevalent model for delivering data from producers (publishers) to consumers (subscribers) distributed across wide-area networks while decou...
Abhishek Gupta, Ozgur D. Sahin, Divyakant Agrawal,...