The presence of replicas or near-replicas of documents is very common on the Web. Documents may be replicated completely or partially for different reasons (versions, mirrors, etc...
Ernesto Di Iorio, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Go...
Replication and caching mechanisms are often employed to enhance the performance of Web applications. In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative analysis of state-...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have proven to be an efficient and successful mechanism for file sharing over the Internet. However, current P2P protocols have long worst case query...
Secret sharing algorithms have been used for intrusion tolerance, which ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical information. However, dynamically changi...