Reactivity on the Web is an emerging issue. It is essential for upcoming Web systems such as online marketplaces, adaptive, Semantic Web systems as well as Web services and Grids....
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Initial versions of MPI were designed to work efficiently on multi-processors which had very little job control and thus static process models. Subsequently forcing them to suppor...
A language for semi-structured documents, XML has emerged as the core of the web services architecture, and is playing crucial roles in messaging systems, databases, and document p...
Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...