Background: Web Services and Workflow Management Systems can support creation and deployment of network systems, able to automate data analysis and retrieval processes in biomedic...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of ownership in large data centers emphasize the need for database system techniques for both automatic performance tuning and ef...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu,...
Two current trends in distributed computing are the emergence of standardised distributed object platforms such as CORBA, and the increasing use of continuous media data types. Th...
Abstract: Collaborative learning systems can be constructed following the serviceoriented computing paradigm. This allows educators to integrate external tools, offered as services...
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Ed...