Distributed storage systems employ replicas or erasure code to ensure high reliability and availability of data. Such replicas create great amount of network traffic that negative...
The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is a joint standardization effort by ITU-T and ISO/IEC for the specification of large open distributed systems. RM-ODP ...
—Wikipedia is one of the most successful examples of massive collaborative content development. However, many of the mechanisms and procedures that it uses are still unknown in d...
Abstract. This paper discusses the approach of ontology-based knowledge engineering in FF POIROT, a project to explore the use of ontology technology in information systems against...
Gang Zhao, John Kingston, Koen Kerremans, Frederic...
This article explains challenges that arise when humanitarian organizations want to coordinate their development activities by means of distributed information systems. It focuses...