We consider the problem of mapping data in peer-topeer data-sharing systems. Such systems often rely on the use of mapping tables listing pairs of corresponding values to search f...
In many Grid services deployments, the clients and servers reside in different administrative domains. Hence, there is a requirement both to discover each other’s authorization ...
Ionut Constandache, Daniel Olmedilla, Frank Sieben...
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Traditionally, distributed computing problems have been solved by partitioning data into chunks able to be handled by commodity hardware. Such partitioning is not possible in case...
We provide a method whereby, given mode and (upper approximation) type information, we can detect procedures and goals that can be guaranteed to not fail (i.e., to produce at leas...