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Parallel I/O in cluster computing is one of the most important issues to be tackled as clusters grow larger and larger. Many solutions have been proposed for the problem and, whil...
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State of the art web search applications allow the user to aggregate information from many sources. Because of this, users are confronted with having to assess the reliability of ...
Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, Henriette S. M. Cramer, Ly...