We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
A general-purpose object indexingtechnique is described that combines the virtues of principal component analysis with the favorable matching properties of high-dimensional spaces...
OGSA-DQP is a Distributed Query Processing system for the Grid. It uses the OGSA-DAI framework for querying individual databases and adds on top of it an infrastructure to perform ...
Enterprises in the public and private sectors have been making their large spatial data archives available over the Internet. However, interactive work with such large volumes of ...