There is currently considerable interest in developing multimedia digital libraries. However, it has become clear that existing architectures for management systems do not support...
Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Ha...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...
Many-task computing aims to bridge the gap between two computing paradigms, high throughput computing and high performance computing. Many-task computing denotes highperformance co...
Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mike Wilde, Zhao Zhang,...
Ad-hoc and situational applications for personal use will gain more and more traction in the work support for knowledge workers (KWers). Personal information is a key element in th...
The main barriers to the level of electronic data interchange required to seamlessly integrate services offered by legacy systems in an Internet environment are the need for appli...
G. M. Bryan, Joanne M. Curry, Carolyn McGregor, D....