In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Three-way merging is a technique that may be employed for reintegrating changes to a document in cases where multiple independently modified copies have been made. While tools fo...
This paper presents the implementation and performance evaluation of a real, secure object-based storage system compliant to the TIO OSD standard. In contrast to previous work, ou...
Zhongying Niu, Ke Zhou, Dan Feng, Hong Jiang, Fran...
Record linkage, the problem of determining when two records refer to the same entity, has applications for both data cleaning (deduplication) and for integrating data from multipl...
Internet overlay services must adapt to the substrate network topology and link properties to achieve high performance. A common overlay structure management layer is desirable fo...