Persistent stores support uniform management of data objects regardless of their lifetimes and locations. Such stores typically maintain a self-consistent state even after failure...
Frans A. Henskens, D. M. Koch, Rasool Jalili, John...
A distributed decision support system involving multiple clinical centres is crucial to the diagnosis of rare diseases. Although sharing of valid diagnosed cases can facilitate la...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
In High Volume Manufacturing (HVM), system control is shared between automation and human workers. The social organisation of workers plays an important role in supporting human d...
People tend to form social networks within geographical areas. This can be explained by the fact that generally geographical localities correspond to common interests (e.g. studen...