Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has become increasingly popular, accounting for as much as 70% of Internet traffic by some estimates. Recently, we have been witnessing the emergen...
Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) have emerged as popular data intensive applications in recent years. Being used by many players simultaneously, they require a high degree of faul...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
In 2002, Japan announced the Earth Simulator—a supercomputer based on low-volume vector processors and a custom network—and reported that computational scientists had used it ...
This proposal explores the promotion of existing relational databases to Semantic Web Endpoints. It presents the benefits of ontologybased read and write access to existing relati...