Increasing scale, dynamism, and complexity of hybrid grids make traditional grid resource scheduling approaches difficult. In such grids, where resource volatility and dynamism is...
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
A table object, defined and described in XML, is treated as the basic unit in a free-link topology that enables multiple inheritances for each node. In this paper, a novel table n...
The past decade has seen the development of a perspective holding that technology is socially constructed (Mackenzie and Wacjman, 1985; Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987; Bijker and L...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) have been widely adopted in many Internet-scale P2P systems. Emerging P2P applications such as massively multi player online games (MMOGs) and P2P ca...