New biomedical technologies need to be integrated for research on complex diseases. It is necessary to combine and analyze information coming from different sources: genetic-molecu...
An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...
The main research in the area of image databases addresses the improvement of retrieval quality and the speedup of the query processing. A number of image retrieval systems reache...
In this paper we introduce the concept of service-based modeling and integrate the modeling techniques into existing development processes. We focus on services in the different p...