The ongoing paradigm change in the scholarly publication system (`science is turning to e-science') makes it necessary to construct alternative evaluation criteria/metrics wh...
Background: Many proteomics initiatives require integration of all information with uniformcriteria from collection of samples and data display to publication of experimental resu...
The paper addresses the problem of the construction and management of highly available services in large, open distributed systems. A novel replication protocol is proposed to sat...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
The paper addresses the problem of client–service interaction in the case of replicated service provision. Existing systems that follow the State Machine approach concentrate on...