MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Peer-to-peer systems offer an efficient means for sharing data among autonomous nodes. A central issue is locating the nodes with data matching a user query. A decentralized solut...
Abstract. This text motivates and de nes a generic model for interactive online or o ine product catalogs. Based on a detailed requirements analysis, the data model is de ned usi...
Background: The analysis and usage of biological data is hindered by the spread of information across multiple repositories and the difficulties posed by different nomenclature sy...
Javier Garcia-Garcia, Emre Guney, Ramon Aragues, J...
The management of product-related data in a uniform and consistent way is a big challenge for many manufacturing enterprises, especially the large ones like DaimlerChrysler. So-ca...