Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed system...
Abstract. This paper discusses the approach of ontology-based knowledge engineering in FF POIROT, a project to explore the use of ontology technology in information systems against...
Gang Zhao, John Kingston, Koen Kerremans, Frederic...
A total order protocol is a fundamental building block in the construction of distributed fault-tolerant applications. Unfortunately, the implementation of such a primitive can be...
In conventional DHTs, each node is assigned an exclusive slice of identifier space. Simple it is, such arrangement may be rough. In this paper we propose a generic component struc...
Ming Chen, Guangwen Yang, Yongwei Wu, Xuezheng Liu
Access. permissions in a data warehouse are currently managed in a separate world from the sources' policies. The consequences are inconsistencies, slow response to change, a...