Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
With the growing number of Web applications and their variety, the need to prevent unauthorised access to data and to ensure data integrity in distributed systems has led to an in...
We present a general Multi-Agent System framework for distributed data mining based on a Peer-toPeer model. The framework adopts message-based asynchronous communication and a dyn...
We propose a theoretical framework for specification and analysis of a class of learning problems that arise in open-ended environments that contain multiple, distributed, dynamic...