Systems designed for efficient retrieval of conventional data can be very inefficient at retrieving documents. Documents have more complex structure than conventional data, and th...
Optimistically replicated systems provide highly available data even when communication between data replicas is unreliable or unavailable. The high availability comes at the cost...
Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a highly attractive programming model, thanks to their ability to mask concurrency management issues to the overlying applic...
Roberto Palmieri, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano,...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
As efforts to develop grid computing solutions gather pace, considerable attention has been directed at defining and addressing technical requirements associated with computationa...
Ernest Sithole, Gerard P. Parr, Sally I. McClean, ...