Background: With the growing amount of biomedical data available in public databases it has become increasingly important to annotate data in a consistent way in order to allow ea...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
This paper describes issues encountered in the design and implementation of a parallel object-oriented database system. In particular, we find that the design of a client/server ...
As the network technology has been developed, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) such as Internet2, KOREN, KREONET2 and etc has been deployed to support bandwidth of Giga bps. And,...