Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
The design of external index structures for one- and multidimensional extended objects is a long and well studied subject in basic database research. Today, more and more commercia...
A popular architecture for enterprise applications is one of a stateless object-based server accessing persistent data through Object-Relational mapping software. The reported ben...
This paper examines the way in which a knowledge management system (KMS)—by which we mean the people, processes and software—came into being and evolved in response to a varie...
Christine Halverson, Thomas Erickson, Mark S. Acke...
We examine the use of Web services, an XML-based distributed object system, for developing reusable, interoperable services for computational science web portals. This paper descr...
Stephen Mock, Choon-Han Youn, Marlon E. Pierce, Ge...