The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
Traditionally, distributed Web servers have used two strategies for allocating files on server nodes: full replication and full distribution. While full replication provides a high...
Data grids deal with a huge amount of data regularly. It is a fundamental challenge to ensure efficient accesses to such widely distributed data sets. Creating replicas to a suita...
This paper presents a transaction-time HTTP server, called ? Apache that supports document versioning. A document often consists of a main file formatted in HTML or XML and severa...
Verification and validation techniques often generate various forms of software development artifacts. Change records created from verification and validation efforts show how fil...