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...
Interest has been growing in powering data centers (at least partially) with renewable or “green” sources of energy, such as solar or wind. However, it is challenging to use t...
Handling parallelism in database systems involves the specification of a storage model, a placement strategy, and a query processing strategy. An important goal is to determine th...
Setrag Khoshafian, George P. Copeland, Thomas Jago...
Monitoring and management operations that query nodes based on their availability can be extremely useful in a variety of largescale distributed systems containing hundreds to thou...
Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...