Replication is a key technique for improving fault tolerance. Replication can also improve application performance under some circumstances, but can have the opposite effect under...
Design templates that involve discovery, analysis, and integration of information resources commonly occur in many scientific research projects. In this paper we present examples o...
Joel H. Saltz, Scott Oster, Shannon Hastings, Step...
In this paper, we attempt to study and investigate ontology development and maintenance frameworks from a domain-centric point of view. By frameworks we mean the structures which ...
A fundamental promise of service oriented architecture (SOA) lies in the ease of integrating sharable information, processes, and other resources through interactions among the sha...
Jianwen Su, Tevfik Bultan, Xiang Fu, Xiangpeng Zha...
Middleware for smart items can facilitate the coordinated execution of distributed components for early data processing. These components can be deployed to different nodes in the...