Brian Cooper
PhD thesis work
Information preservation in networks of autonomous
archives
How can we build a network of digital archives that cooperate to
preserve digital information? The basic concept is that archives store
each other's documents, so that there is always a good, active copy
despite failures, bankruptcies, natural disasters, and so on. This thesis aims to address the
architecture and implementation of the system, techniques for allocating preservation resources in a
distributed way while preserving site autonomy, and methods for locating digital
materials effectively after they have been distributed to remote archives.
Research results:
System architecture and tools
- Brian F. Cooper, Arturo Crespo and Hector Garcia-Molina. Implementing
a Reliable Digital Object Archive. ECDL 2000. Abstract, Postscript or PDF.
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. InfoMonitor:
Unobtrusively archiving a World Wide Web server. Technical Report,
2000. Abstract, Postscript
or PDF
Data trading to replicate digital objects
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Peer to peer data
trading to preserve information. ACM TOIS, April 2002. Abstract, Postscript
or PDF
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Creating trading
networks of digital archives. JCDL 2001. Abstract, Postscript or PDF
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Bidding for storage
space in a peer-to-peer data preservation system.
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2002. Abstract, Postscript or PDF
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Peer-to-peer resource
trading in a reliable distributed system. 1st International Workshop on
Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), 2002. Abstract, Postscript or PDF
Peer-to-peer search to locate digital objects
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Studying search
networks with SIL. 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer
Systems (IPTPS), 2003. Abstract, Postscript
or PDF.
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina. Modeling and
measuring scalable peer-to-peer search networks. Technical report,
2002. Abstract, Postscript or PDF.
- Brian F. Cooper and Hector Garcia-Molina.
Ad hoc, self-supervising peer-to-peer search networks. Technical report, 2003.
Abstract, Postscript or PDF.
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