We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
In this paper we study how to build an effective incremental crawler. The crawler selectively and incrementally updates its index and/or local collection of web pages, instead of ...
With the wide availability of content delivery networks, many e-commerce Web applications utilize edge cache servers to cache and deliver dynamic contents at locations much closer...
Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Sel&cc...