Abstract. The need for location-based services has motivated an important research effort in the efficient processing of location-dependent queries. Most of the existing approaches...
: As the geographic information system (GIS) community grows, more and more people needs to share geographic information. As modern GIS data is stored in geographic databases their...
Web personalization is the process of customizing a Web site to the needs of each specific user or set of users, taking advantage of the knowledge acquired through the analysis of...
— Security is emerging as an important requirement for a number of distributed applications such as online banking, social networking etc. due to the private nature of the data b...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...