When a program uses Software Transactional Memory (STM) to synchronize accesses to shared memory, the performance often depends on which STM implementation is used. Implementation...
Over the past five years, large-scale storage installations have required fault-protection beyond RAID-5, leading to a flurry of research on and development of erasure codes for m...
James S. Plank, Jianqiang Luo, Catherine D. Schuma...
As semantic web technologies are increasingly used to empower knowledge management systems (KMSs), there is a growing need for mechanisms and automated tools for checking content ...
In service-oriented environments, the fluidity of the marketplace introduces changes in service offerings and subsequent connection failures for users still bound to outdated serv...
M. Brian Blake, Amy Lynn Sliva, Michael zur Muehle...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...