Despite increasing dependency on technology, the importance of humans is expected to increase and to provide a realistic basis for decision support; both technical and organizatio...
: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
—Nowadays, several industrial applications are being ported to parallel architectures. These applications take advantage of the potential parallelism provided by multiple core pr...
The increasing power of modern computers steadily opens up new application domains for advanced data processing such as engineering and knowledge-based applications. To meet their...
Large scale Open Systems are built from reusable components in such a way that enhanced system functionality can be deployed, quickly and effectively, simply by plugging in a few n...