The ever growing request for digital information raises the need for content distribution architectures providing high storage capacity, data availability and good performance. Wh...
We describe the design of Mariposa, an experimental distributed data management system that provides high performance in an environment of high data mobility and heterogeneous hos...
Michael Stonebraker, Paul M. Aoki, Robert Devine, ...
Abstract In this paper, we demonstrate that two characteristic properties of mammalian brains emerge when scaling-up modular, cortical structures. Firstly, the glia-toneuron ratio ...
Abstract: Among other things, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are very useful for managing large amounts of widely distributed data. Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) offer a highly scalabl...
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...