The existing standard for object-oriented databases (ODMG) provides no facility for storing behaviour. This lack of stored behaviour introduces problems for generic applications as...
ImageCLEFphoto 2008 is an ad-hoc photo retrieval task and part of the ImageCLEF evaluation campaign. This task provides both the resources and the framework necessary to perform c...
Thomas Arni, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Michael ...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
In this paper we present a new perspective on the problem of complexity in software, using sound mathematical concepts from information theory such as Shannon’s Entropy [31]. We...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...