In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data consistency is not always attainable: different sites' data may be dirty,...
The problem of maintaining efficiently a large number (say millions) of statistics counters that need to be updated at very high speeds (e.g. 40 Gb/s) has received considerable re...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Hao Wang, Bill Lin, Jun (Jim...
The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project has been working on automating the processes of building ADL collections and gathering the collection statistics on which ADL’s disco...
As the Internet is a global network, there is a demand on accessing closely related data without browsing through di erent Web documents. A signi cant amount of these data are pre...
A domain model describes common and variant requirements for a system family. UML notations used in requirements analysis and software modeling can be extended with “variation p...