Modern high-end machines feature multiple processor packages, each of which contains multiple independent cores and integrated memory controllers connected directly to dedicated ph...
Many Web applications are based on dynamic interactions between Web components exchanging flows of information. Such a situation arises for instance in mashup systems or when moni...
: Multimedia streaming means delivering continuous data to a plethora of client devices. Besides the actual data transport, this also needs a high degree of content adaptation resp...
Data is often collected over a distributed network, but in many cases, is so voluminous that it is impractical and undesirable to collect it in a central location. Instead, we mus...
Although the native (tree-like) storage of XML data becomes more and more important there will be an enduring demand to manage XML data in its textual representation, for instance ...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Christian Werner, Yl...