Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have made an enormous impact on the Internet, directly affecting its performance and security. The litigation against P2P file sharing has led some desi...
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
Existing data-integration systems based on the mediation architecture employ a variety of mechanisms to describe the query-processing capabilities ofsources. However, these system...
An architecture for the integration of Grid applications with a Catallactic middleware is described, along with an analysis of issues associated with this integration in a real wo...
Liviu Joita, Omer F. Rana, Pablo Chacin, Isaac Cha...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...