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The database landscape has significantly evolved over the last decade and distributed databases running in the cloud moved into the focus. This evolvement challenges the already non-trivial task of selecting and deploying ...

The increasing availability of 10G Ethernet network capabilities challenges existing transport layer protocols. As 10G connections gain momentum outside of backbone networks, the choice of appropriate TCP congestion control ...

Fault-tolerance by replication has been re-implemented over and over again. Even though many replicated services apply the same replication protocols, their implementations are not re-usable, because replication is seldom ...

As a matter of fact, information retrieval has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the Internet and the advent of always more modern and inexpensive mass storage devices. Due to the enormous increase ...

This thesis designs and implements an ontology which encodes the argumentative structure of natural language debates. This Debating Ontology will constitute the database for a prospective Argumentative Dialogue System, ...

IT support for distributed and collaborative workflows as well as related interactions between business partners are becoming increasingly important. For modeling such partner interactions as flow of message exchanges, ...

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The neural mechanisms underlying the segregation and integration of detected motion still remain unclear to a large extent. Motion of an extended boundary can locally be measured by neurons only orthogonal to its orientation ...