The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
Modern grids have become very complex by their size and their heterogeneity. It makes the deployment and maintenance of systems a difficult task requiring lots of efforts from ad...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
There is an increasing interest in integrating Javabased, and in particular Jini systems, with the emerging Grid infrastructures. In this paper we explore various ways of integrat...
E-mail services are essential in the Internet. However, the basic e-mail architecture presents problems that opens it to several threats. Alternatives have been proposed to solve ...