Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
In this paper we investigate how “self-awareness'', through on-line self-monitoring and measurement, coupled with intelligent adaptive behaviour in response to observe...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
The principal aim of Project StORe is to provide middleware that will enable bi-directional links between source repositories of research data and the output repositories containi...
In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...