—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...
Abstract— Emergent wide-area distributed systems like computational grids present opportunities for large scientific applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms hav...
We consider the problem of estimating set-expression cardinality in a distributed streaming environment where rapid update streams originating at remote sites are continually tran...
Abhinandan Das, Sumit Ganguly, Minos N. Garofalaki...
In this paper we present a paradigm to express streams and its implementation. Streams are a convenient mechanism to communicate multimedia data, for example video or audio, betwe...
To deal with the frequent, foreseeable and variable disconnections that occur in a mobile environment, we introduce a exible, two-level consistency model. Semantically related or ...