In P2P systems, large volumes of data are declustered naturally across a large number of peers. But it is very difficult to control the initial data distribution because every use...
Distributed cooperative engineering applications require consistent and long-term sharing of large volumes of data, which may cause conflicts due to concurrent read/write operatio...
Advanced manufacturing environments nowadays involve a number of cooperating heterogeneous nodes, where each node supports a distinct activity, and their joint efforts and informa...
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ammar Benabdelkader, Louis O....
Science is increasingly driven by data collected automatically from arrays of inexpensive sensors. The collected data volumes require a different approach from the scientists'...
Stuart Ozer, Jim Gray, Alexander S. Szalay, Andrea...
Uncertain data arises in a number of domains, including data integration and sensor networks. Top-k queries that rank results according to some user-defined score are an important...