Resource discovery is an important process for finding suitable nodes that satisfy application requirements in large loosely-coupled distributed systems. Besides inter-node heter...
Typically, searching for information in a document collection amounts to refining a query and then scanning a large number of documents to determine their relevance. Active Summar...
To select some "valuable" views for materialization is an essential challenge in OLAP system design. Several techniques proposed previously are not very scalable for syst...
— Replication is a technique widely used for large networked software systems to provide qualities such as reliability, availability, performance and scalability to their clients...
In P2P systems, large volumes of data are declustered naturally across a large number of peers. But it is very difficult to control the initial data distribution because every use...