This paper presents the distributed architecture of the WIDE workflow management system. We show how distribution and scalability are obtained by the use of a distributed object m...
Stefano Ceri, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Gabriel Sanche...
This paper demonstrates the applicability of automated reasoning to text processing, specifically to Question Answering. It is shown that the approach is feasible, effective, and ...
A cooperative structured peer-to-peer file-sharing system requires that the nodes participating in the system need to maintain the location mappings of other nodes. However, the s...
Large-scale scientific and business applications require data processing of ever-increasing amounts of data, fueling a demand for scalable parallel file systems comprising hundred...
This paper presents Timed Quorum System (TQS), a quorum system for large-scale and dynamic systems. TQS provides guarantees that two quorums, accessed at instances of time that are...