This paper presents a peer-to-peer approach to execution of BPEL processes. It does not pre-allocate resources as in existing decentralized approaches. Nor does it involve global c...
In order to accurately cost the new product manufacture, and to assess a `what if' scenario in a rapid manner, requires an information system which can integrate the process ...
: Over the last years the telecommunications industry has shifted from technology driven and incumbent operators to business driven service providers. There is a need for mature, c...
In this paper we address the problem of minimizing the response time of a multi-way join query using pipelined (inter-operator) parallelism, in a parallel or a distributed environ...
Generating good, production-quality plans is an essential element in transforming planners from research tools into real-world applications, but one that has been frequently overl...