With the development of World Wide Web (WWW), storage and utilization of web data has become a big challenge for data management research community. Web data are essentially hetero...
Background: Microarrays are becoming a very popular tool for microbial detection and diagnostics. Although these diagnostic arrays are much simpler when compared to the traditiona...
Backup of websites is often not considered until after a catastrophic event has occurred to either the website or its webmaster. We introduce “lazy preservation” – digital p...
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...
In this paper we present a quantitative study of data survival in peer to peer storage systems. We first recall two main redundancy mechanisms: replication and erasure codes, whic...