Abstract. One of the main challenges of grid systems of large scale and data intensive is that of providing high availability and performance, in spite of the unreliability and del...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...
Disaster management information systems for international humanitarian relief are developed in contexts involving local, national and inter-governmental organizations together with...
Edgar A. Maldonado, Carleen F. Maitland, Andrea Ho...
Recently many large scale computer systems are built in order to meet the high storage and processing demands of compute and data-intensive applications. MapReduce is one of the mo...
Online social network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others have grown rapidly, with hundreds of millions of active users. A new feature on many sites is social applications...
Andrew Besmer, Heather Richter Lipford, Mohamed Sh...