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2010
13 years 8 months ago
Cloud Computing - The Next Revolution in Information Technology
: Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditised and delivered in a manner similar to utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telepho...
Rajkumar Buyya
BTW
2003
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Information Integration in a Global Enterprise: Some Experiences from a Financial Services Company
: In most commercial enterprises, information is scattered across a large number of (legacy) data stores. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to obtain funding to replace these data ...
Robert Marti
INFOCOM
2012
IEEE
12 years 11 days ago
Secure top-k query processing via untrusted location-based service providers
Abstract—This paper considers a novel distributed system for collaborative location-based information generation and sharing which become increasingly popular due to the explosiv...
Rui Zhang 0007, Yanchao Zhang, Chi Zhang
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Paper plays a crucial role in many developing world information practices. However, paper-based records are inefficient, error-prone and difficult to aggregate. Therefore we need ...
Tapan S. Parikh, Edward D. Lazowska
VL
2005
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
CAM: A Mobile Paper-Based Information Services Architecture for Remote Rural Areas in the Developing World
During our work with microfinance groups in rural India, we found that paper plays a crucial role in many local information practices. However, paperbased record keeping can be in...
Tapan S. Parikh