As new computer architectures are developed to exploit large-scale data-level parallelism, techniques are needed to retarget legacy sequential code to these platforms. Sequential ...
Over the past decade the Internet has evolved into the largest public community in the world. It provides a wealth of data content and services in almost every field of science, t...
Dramatic increasesin availablewide-area bandwidth have driven event-basedmonitoring to new heights. Monitoring services are widely used in today's distributed laboratories, w...
XML, as "the next generation ASCII", can play several roles in a distributed object system; one of the more exciting ones is as the basis for serialized data representat...
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...