Digital libraries and OPACs are offering an enormous collection of information resources which can be accessed through Internet by quite different users thanks to the existence of...
When designing computer systems, simulation tools are used to imitate a real or proposed system. Complex, dynamic systems can be simulated without the cost and time constraints in...
This paper presents a recovery protocol for block I/O operations in Slice, a storage system architecture for highspeed LANs incorporating network-attached block storage. The goal ...
In recent years, the Internet has emerged as an important collaborative platform. Many applications utilize the Internet to provide new kinds of services. Among others, Internet t...
Dynamic replication algorithms aim at allocating, migrating and deleting copies of an object over various Internet hosts, according to the access patterns exhibited online, so as ...