Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
Large volume public comment campaigns and web portals that encourage the public to customize form letters produce many near-duplicate documents, which increases processing and sto...
and abstract entry. But since the burgeoning of the scholarly literature since World War II, these processes had become well-known and expertly done by most organizations in the pu...
Embracing service-oriented architectures in the context of large systems, such as the Web, rises a set of new and challenging issues: increased size and load in terms of users and...