As users interact with the world and their peers through their computers, it is becoming important to archive and later search the information that they have viewed. We present De...
Oren Laadan, Ricardo A. Baratto, Dan B. Phung, Sha...
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
The Grid approach provides the ability to access and use distributed resources as part of virtual organizations. The emerging Grid infrastructure gives rise to a class of scientif...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Ami...
One useful feature that is missing from today’s database systems is an explain capability that enables users to seek clarifications on unexpected query results. There are two t...
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...