—This paper investigates the Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, which to the best of our knowledge, has never been academically studied before. We developed a participati...
As the amount of user generated content grows, personal information management has become a challenging problem. Several information management approaches, such as desktop search,...
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Contemporary datacenters house tens of thousands of servers. The servers are closely monitored for operating conditions and utilizations by collecting their performance data (e.g....
Rule bases are common in many business rule applications, clinical decision support programs, and other types of intelligent systems. As the size of the rule bases grows and the in...