In many information systems, the databases that make up the system are distributed in different modules or branch offices according to the requirements of the business enterprise. ...
Centralized Resource Description Framework (RDF) repositories have limitations both in their failure tolerance and in their scalability. Existing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) RDF repositori...
Distributed cooperative engineering applications require consistent and long-term sharing of large volumes of data, which may cause conflicts due to concurrent read/write operatio...
This paper argues for explicit consideration of data fidelity during development of context-aware systems. Increasing the amount of data captured, stored, and distributed does not ...
The ability to manage metadata is a critical requirement of the grid, but scientists have not been given the tools needed to catalog experimental data based complex metadata attri...
Scott Jensen, Beth Plale, Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Y...