A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
The IST project Cuidado, which started in January 2001, aims at producing the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The...
Data grids provide geographically distributed storage and computing resources for large data-intensive applications. To support fast data access and processing, effective data man...
Prefetching is an effective technique for improving file access performance, which can reduce access latency for I/O systems. In distributed storage system, prefetching for metadat...
Lin Lin, Xueming Li, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, Lei T...
Maintaining correct access control to shared resources such as file servers, wikis, and databases is an important part of enterprise network management. A combination of many fact...