: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...
The increasing popularity of distributed and collaborative applications prompts the need for secure communication in collaborative groups. Some distributed collaborative key manag...
Jiang Zhang, Jian-Guang Luo, Bin Li, Shiqiang Yang
The paper presents a complete framework for spatial indexing support in a distributed setting. We consider a shared-nothing environment where a set of servers provides independent...
The majority of the work in the area of Markov decision processes has focused on expected values of rewards in the objective function and expected costs in the constraints. Althou...
We have developed Ceph, a distributed file system that provides excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. Ceph maximizes the separation between data and metadata manage...
Sage A. Weil, Scott A. Brandt, Ethan L. Miller, Da...