S2FS, a descendant of NCIC's COSMOS file system prototype, is a single-image cluster file system, and good scalability is its main design goal. Reducing client-server communication and the number of disk accesses is critical for I/O scalability. Cooperative caching reduces the number of network hops and disk accesses considerably, however, the network must be used to maintain cache coherence. T...

Cooperative knowledge management refers to the work practice or culture facet of information systems engineering; it plays a key role especially in engineering and consulting domains. However, in comparison to technology-centered and business-process-centered meta modeling approaches (exemplified by UML and ERP), this aspect has received significantly less attention in research and is much less...

In this paper we describe how a set of autonomous computational agents can cooperate in providing coherent management of information in environments where there are many diverse information resources. The agents use models of themselves and of the resources that are local to them. Resource models may be the schemas of databases, frame systems of knowledge bases, or process models of business op...

given the importance of cooperatives in women's empowerment and the necessity of improving their performance, the present study was conducted to investigate factors or constructs discriminating successful and non-successful women's cooperatives to recognize the enabling conditions for cooperative's success. this was a co relational-survey type research in which 12819 of the membe...