The advance in wireless networks and in positioning systems has led to the development of a new generation of mobile applications: location-based services (LBS). LBS offer highly ...
Hubert Ka Yau Leung, Ioana Burcea, Hans-Arno Jacob...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
The Globus Data Grid architecture provides a scalable infrastructure for the management of storage resources and data that are distributed across Grid environments. These services...
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Steven Tuecke, Ian T. Foster
Blogs have the aordance to become an integral part of teaching and learning processes as a vehicle for knowledge management. Open, exible systems integrating blogs provide user-f...