Within the field of databases that are deployed in distributed environments there is a need to guarantee consistency among replicas and availability among nodes despite of networ...
R-GMA (Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture) [1] is a grid monitoring and information system that provides a global view of data distributed across a grid system. R-GMA creates ...
Rob Byrom, Brian A. Coghlan, Andrew W. Cooke, Rone...
Abstract. We present a Bayesian approach for simultaneously estimating the number of people in a crowd and their spatial locations by sampling from a posterior distribution over cr...
Define anycast services as a group of replicated servers that may provide similar or identical services. Using anycast services can significantly simplify some applications such...
In this paper, we study a peer-to-peer media streaming system with the following characteristics: (1) its streaming capacity grows dynamically; (2) peers do not exhibit serverlike...
Dongyan Xu, Mohamed Hefeeda, Susanne E. Hambrusch,...