Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a textual markup language designed for the creation of self-describing documents. Such documents contain textual data combined with structural ...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Topographic querying is the process of extracting data from a sensor network for understanding the graphic delineation of features of interest in a terrain. Query processing techn...