Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
In both academia and industry, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have attracted great attention. Peer-to-peer file sharing applications, such as Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, BitTorrent...
Many efforts in past years have been made to lower the linguistic barriers for non-native English speakers to access the Internet. IDNA [2] focuses on access to Internationalized ...
Enterprise storage demands have overwhelmed traditional storage mechanisms and have led to the development of Storage Area Networks (SANs). This has resulted in the design of SCSI...
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a multi-hop wireless network having no infrastructure. Thus, the mobile nodes have to perform basic control tasks, such as routing, and higher-l...