Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
Scientific experiments produce large volumes of data represented as complex objects that describe independent events such as particle collisions. Scientific analyses can be express...
Abstract. Traditional retrieval models assume that query terms are independent and rank documents primarily based on various term weighting strategies including TF-IDF and document...
Peer-to-peer systems typically operate in large-scale, highly unreliable and insecure environments. Tackling this complexity requires good software design. Yet, many peer-to-peer ...
The lack of lightweight communication channels and other technical and sociological difficulties make it hard for new members of a non-collocated software development team to lea...
Davor Cubranic, Gail C. Murphy, Janice Singer, Kel...