This paper describes TimeLine, an efficient archive service for a distributed storage system. TimeLine allows users to take snapshots on demand. The archive is stored online so th...
Wide-area distributed systems like computational grids are emergent infrastructures for high-performance parallel applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms have to ...
The changing competitive landscape has brought new forces to bear on the manner in which new products are developed. These forces have put the creation and dissemination of knowle...
Since the approval of IEEE LOM Draft Standard and the advance of network-driven learning technology, a large number of resource database constructors, content developers and learn...
Consistency management is an important requirement in many complex applications, but current programming languages and database systems provide inadequate support for it. To addre...