Handling audio and video in a digital environment requires timely delivery of data. This paper describes the principles adopted in the design of the Pandora networked multi-media ...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
The paper presents a comparative analysis of data harvesting and distributed computing as complementary models of service delivery within large-scale federated digital libraries. I...
An emerging class of data-intensive applications involve the geographically dispersed extraction of complex scientific information from very large collections of measured or compu...
William E. Allcock, Joseph Bester, John Bresnahan,...
In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...