Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures use special nodes to provide directory services for regions of the network (“regional directory services”). Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
As the number of digital images is growing fast and Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is gaining in popularity, CBIR systems should leap towards Webscale datasets. In this paper...
Michal Batko, Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Lucchese, D...
Engineering design search and optimisation is a computationally expensive and data intensive process. Grid technology offers great potential to increase the efficiency of this proc...
Jasmin L. Wason, Marc Molinari, Zhuoan Jiao, Simon...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...