Derived horizontal fragmentation is one of the main database distribution design techniques. Unlike primary horizontal fragmentation, the decision of derived horizontal fragmentat...
Electronic Commerce is a field of application that is distributed by nature where different parties share information and work concurrently and cooperatively on objects, potential...
: This paper presents a propagation model for complex object versions. Complex objects are object linked to other objects by means of dependence relations such as composition, inhe...
We describe a design for a collaborative Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support massively multi-user and multi-institutional learning communities. This architecture extends...
—Many large-scale distributed systems can benefit from a service that allows them to select among alternative nodes based on their relative network positions. A variety of appro...