In a countty like Lebanon, that lacks most natural resources ( oil, metals, gold, etc), the only wealth left is its human resources. The Lebanese people were always proud of their ability to use their skills to bring wealth ...

With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web comes the enormous increase in stored digital contents, which could challenge users to search and use the multimedia data efficiently. This work focuses on hastening ...

This thesis is centered around the field of database replication. In this thesis, we present synchronous/asynchronous multi-master replication architecture and a replica control algorithm, which guarantees and provides ...