Over the last several years, research into fully distributed database has slowly but surely found its way into commercial products. Today, many of the mainstream enterprise database products offer at least some level of transparent distributed database access. This paper studies the replication...

Because of the formidable obstacles to realizing the ideal distributed database, DBMS vendors have taken a step-by-step approach to databases and networking. They have focused on specific forms of network database access, data distribution, and distributed data management that are appropriate...

In this paper, we study the robust variable selection and estimation based on rank regression and SCAD penalty function in linear regression models when the number of parameters diverges with the sample size increasing. The proposed method is resistant to heavy-tailed errors or outliers in the...