Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
In every application domain, achieving interoperability among heterogenous information systems is a crucial challenge and alliances are formed to standardize data-exchange formats...
Successful lighting in video games is more than a physically accurate illumination model. Aesthetics and function are of equal or greater importance. Lighting designers may deviat...
Through automated negotiation we aim to improve task allocation in a distributed sensor network. In particular, we look at a type of adaptive weather-sensing radar that permits th...