Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
Large, socially-driven Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and Youtube have seen significant growth in popularity [5, 10]. However, strong demand also exists for socially-driven web s...
Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, George Va...
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...
Abstract— The execution environments For scientific applications have evolved significantly over the years. Vector and parallel architectures have provided significantly faste...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...