Users of websites such as Facebook, Ebay and Yahoo! demand fast response times, and
these sites replicate data across globally distributed datacenters to achieve this. However, it …

This paper introduces a new algorithm for enhancing image resolution from an image
sequence. The approach we propose herein uses the integrating resampler proposed by M …

This chapter presents the science of" COllective INtelligence"(COIN). A COIN is a large multi-
agent systems where: i) the agents each run reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms; ii) there …

Replicating for performance constitutes an important issue in large–scale data management
systems. In this context, a significant number of replication strategies have been proposed …

We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that
enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This …

Currently, in information technology domain and implicit in databases domain can be
noticed two apparently contradictory approaches: centralization and distribution …

A replication scheme determines the number and location of replicas in a distributed system.
Traditional static replication schemes do not perform well in mobile environments due to the …

We consider the use of a database cluster for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP
context, applications and databases can be update-intensive and must remain autonomous …

The proliferation and affordability of webcams and other smart sensors have created
opportunities for novel sensor-enriched Internet services, which combine traditional data …

From the Publisher: Advances in Concurrency Control and Transaction Processing
addresses developments in transaction processing, and the motivation for transactions and …