TOPSAW program was developed by Dr. S. Chang and his team and has been successfully used in the replication of sawmill cutting to determine the optimal cutting pattern for a log t...
In this paper, we discuss and compare several policies to place replicas in tree networks, subject to server capacity constraints. The client requests are known beforehand, while ...
Replication and caching have been deployed widely in current P2P systems. In update-allowed P2P systems, a consistency maintenance mechanism is strongly demanded. Several solution...
The integration of networked applications, especially those requiring continuous access to shared information resources and databases, may be effected by scheduled unavailability ...
One of the Web information Retrieval (IR) problems these days is to identify redundant information that exist in (replicated) Web documents. These documents can easily be found in...