Any set of autonomous workstations, however networked (by a LAN, a MAN, or wireless), can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks. Such a collection can be operated by...
When a data warehouse is loaded at night and queried during the day, there is no requirement for concurrent update and querying. However there are a number of situations where con...
Web service composition provision which requires efficient coordination of the execution of component services is a critical issue in service-oriented computing. Nowadays, BPEL4WS...
Jun Yan, Phillip Pidgeon, Aneesh Krishna, Jianming...
The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service. Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple cl...
Semantic caching augments cached data with a semantic description of the data. These semantic descriptions can be used to improve execution time for similar queries by retrieving ...
Norvald H. Ryeng, Jon Olav Hauglid, Kjetil N&oslas...