Abstract. Optimistic replication is a fundamental technique for supporting collaborative work practices in mobile environments. However, eventual consistency, in contrast to immedi...
Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the purpose of creating computing systems that are reflective and self-adaptive. In this paper ...
High-performance computing is essential for solving large problems and for reducing the time to solution for a single problem. Current top high-performance computing systems conta...
Desktop Grids are rapidly gaining popularity as a costeffective computing platform for the execution of applications with extensive computing needs. As opposed to grids and cluste...
Similarity search has been proved suitable for searching in very large collections of unstructured data objects. We are interested in efficient parallel query processing under si...