Abstract--The cloud computing model aims to make largescale data-intensive computing affordable even for users with limited financial resources, that cannot invest into expensive i...
The efficacy of data aggregation in sensor networks is a function of the degree of spatial correlation in the sensed phenomenon. While several data aggregation (i.e., routing with...
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browsers and search engines modified human acce...
Many recent large-scale distributed computing applications utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The resulting distributed compu...
This paper explores the application of ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators to develop water quality index, which incorporates an attitudinal dimension in the aggregation pr...