A tuple t1 of relation R subsumes tuple t2 of R, with respect to a query Q if for every database, tuple t1 derives all, and possibly more, answers to query Q than derived by tuple ...
One of the objectives of e-Research is to help scientists to accomplish their research, including scientific experiments, more effectively and efficiently. Web services provide ...
Donglai Zhang, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wende...
Peer-to-peer storage systems assume that their users consume resources in proportion to their contribution. Unfortunately, users are unlikely to do this without some enforcement m...
We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a pe...
Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario La...
Grid is a promising e-Science infrastructure that promotes and facilitates the sharing and collaboration in the use of distributed heterogeneous resources through Virtual Organiza...
Peisheng Zhao, Aijun Chen, Yang Liu, Liping Di, We...