In distributed storage systems, erasure codes represent an attractive solution to add redundancy to stored data while limiting the storage overhead. They are able to provide the s...
Implementations of map-reduce are being used to perform many operations on very large data. We examine strategies for joining several relations in the map-reduce environment. Our ...
This study examines how the increasing number of new mobile devices that enable rich in situ information capture can be utilized to improve knowledge management practices. An ethn...
Abstract. We outline a framework for managing information quality (IQ) in eScience, using ontologies, semantic annotation of resources, and data bindings. Scientists define the qua...
Alun D. Preece, Binling Jin, Edoardo Pignotti, Pao...
– In this paper, we first describe the concept of data overlay, which is a mechanism to implement arbitrary data structure on top of any structured P2P DHT. With this ion, we dev...