Scientific data in the life sciences is distributed over various independent multi-format databases and is constantly expanding. We discuss a scenario where a life science research...
In peer-to-peer storage systems, peers can freely join and leave the system at any time. Ensuring high data availability in such an environment is a challenging task. In this paper...
Safely updating software at remote sites is a cautious balance of enabling new functionality and avoiding adverse effects on existing functionality. A useful first step in this p...
We discuss a generic architecture for building user-centric systems. The characteristic feature of such systems is a control loop that monitors the user’s state, and produces a h...
Gilbert Beyer, Moritz Hammer, Christian Kroiss, An...
Networking researchers have been using tools like wireshark and tcpdump to sniff packets on physical links that use different types of datalink protocols, e.g. Ethernet or 802.11,...