We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
With the ongoing trend towards the globalization of software systems and their development, components in these systems might not only work together, but may end up evolving indep...
Threshold cryptosystems and signature schemes give ways to distribute trust throughout a group and increase the availability of cryptographic systems. A standard approach in design...
— In this paper we show how Grid computing can be used to improve the operation of a medical image search system. The paper introduces the basic principles of a content-based ima...
Activities such as Web Services and the Semantic Web are working to create a web of distributed machine understandable data. In this paper we present an application called Semanti...