Existing package and system configuration management tools suffer from an imperative model, where system administration actions such as upgrading packages or changes to system con...
Whole-file transfer is a basic primitive for Internet content dissemination. Content servers are increasingly limited by disk arm movement given the rapid growth in disk density, ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...
Confidential data hemorrhaging from health-care providers pose financial risks to firms and medical risks to patients. We examine the consequences of data hemorrhages including pri...
The paper describes DISCOVR, a distributed collaborative video recorder. DISCOVR is a P2P application that combines asynchronous file sharing with synchronous on-demand media stre...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...