The Web has evolved from a global information space of linked documents to a web of linked data. The Web of Data enables answering complex, structured queries that could not be an...
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
A fundamental premise of tagging systems is that regular users can organize large collections for browsing and other tasks using uncontrolled vocabularies. Until now, that premise...
Paul Heymann, Andreas Paepcke, Hector Garcia-Molin...
Four per-session guarantees are proposed to aid users and applications of weakly consistent replicated data: Read Your Writes, Monotonic Reads, Writes Follow Reads, and Monotonic ...
Douglas B. Terry, Alan J. Demers, Karin Petersen, ...
Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention in both academia and industry. We envision the provision of differentiated services as being one of the key components to th...