In traditional information systems, the user interface is controlled by one single application. In distributed systems, several distributed components may want to influence the ap...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
We describe DSPHERE1 - a decentralized system for crawling, indexing, searching and ranking of documents in the World Wide Web. Unlike most of the existing search technologies tha...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Vaibhav Pa...
With the increasing use of geographical data in real-world applications, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have recently emerged as a fruitful area for research. Nowadays, a G...
Shu-Ching Chen, Xinran Wang, Naphtali Rishe, Mark ...
Clustered applications in storage area networks (SANs), widely adopted in enterprise datacenters, have traditionally relied on distributed locking protocols to coordinate concurre...