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DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Having a BLAST: Analyzing Gene Sequence Data with BlastQuest
An essential problem for biologists is the processing and evaluation of BLAST results. We advocate the deployment of database technology and describe a userdriven tool, called Bla...
William G. Farmerie, Joachim Hammer, Li Liu, Marku...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Self-Organizing Resource Allocation for Autonomic Networks
Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual ...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Today's DBMSs: How autonomic are they?
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are complex systems whose manageability is increasingly becoming a real concern. Realizing that expert Database Administrators (DBAs) are scarc...
Said Elnaffar, Wendy Powley, Darcy G. Benoit, T. P...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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XenoTrust: Event-based distributed trust management
This paper describes XenoTrust, the trust management architecture used in the XenoServer Open Platform: a public infrastructure for wide-area computing, capable of hosting tasks t...
Boris Dragovic, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Steven Hand,...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Addressing Learner Diversity by Promoting Flexibility in e-Learning Environments
Maia Dimitrova, Chris Sadler, Stylianos Hatzipanag...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Enhancing the Availability of Networked Database Services by Replication and Consistency Maintenance
We describe a middleware platform for maintaining the consistency of replicated data called COPla (Common Object Platform). The purpose of replication is to enhance the availabili...
Hendrik Decker, Francesc D. Muñoz-Esco&iacu...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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A Protocol for Programmable Smart Cards
This paper presents an open protocol for interoperability across multi-vendor programmable smart cards. It allows exposition of on-card storage and cryptographic services to host ...
Tommaso Cucinotta, Marco Di Natale, David Corcoran
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Towards an Autonomic Distributed Computing System
Increasing hardware performance of desktop computers accounts for a low-cost computing potential that is waiting to be efficiently used. However, the complexity of installation a...
Zoran Constantinescu
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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Methodology and Tools to Support Storytelling in Cultural Heritage Forums
Storytelling is a method by which members of a community communicate, learn and build identity. In the CIPHER project we aim to provide customisable tools for the sharing of stori...
Trevor D. Collins, Paul Mulholland, David Bradbury...
DEXAW
2003
IEEE
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HELIOS: a General Framework for Ontology-based Knowledge Sharing and Evolution in P2P Systems
Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli...