The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
Remotebackup copies of databasesare often maintained to ensureavailability of dataevenin thepresenceof extensive failures, for which local replication mechanismsmay be inadequate....
Hector Garcia-Molina, Christos A. Polyzois, Robert...
Most previous research done in probabilistic schedulability analysis assumes a known distribution of execution times for each task of a real-time application. This is however not ...
Research on recommender systems has primarily addressed centralized scenarios and largely ignored open, decentralized systems where remote information distribution prevails. Absenc...
Distributed privacy preserving data mining tools are critical for mining multiple databases with a minimum information disclosure. We present a framework including a general model...