In this paper, we revisit the master-slave tasking paradigm in the context of heterogeneous processors. We assume that communications take place in exclusive mode. We present a po...
We study the problem of querying data sources that accept only a limited set of queries, such as sources accessible by Web services which can implement very large (potentially inf...
Random Walks (RWs) have been considered for information dissemination in large scale, dynamic and unstructured environments, as they are scalable, robust to topology changes and d...
: The concept of natural neighbors employs the notion of distance to define local neighborhoods in discrete data. Especially when querying and accessing large scale data, it is im...
Orchestration is currently presented as a way to coordinate web services in order to define business processes. In this paper we revisit these concepts, showing the current limita...