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2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Database System Architecture - A Walk Through Time: From Centralized Platform to Mobile Computing - Keynote Address
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
Ali R. Hurson, Yu Jiao
VLDB
1994
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
15 years 7 months ago
Relating Distributed Objects
Many relational and object-oriented database systems provide referential integrity and compound operations on related objects using relationship mechanisms. Distributed object sys...
Bruce E. Martin, R. G. G. Cattell
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
126views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
16 years 3 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
PPPJ
2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Multi-tiered distributed computing platform
A simple programmable Java platform-independent distributed computation system has been developed to exploit the free resources on computers linked together by a network. It is a ...
Andrew J. Page, Thomas M. Keane, Richard Allen, Th...
HICSS
1994
IEEE
118views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1994»
15 years 7 months ago
A Distributed Architecture for an Instructable Problem Solver
Our research goal is to design systems that enable humans to teach tedious, repetitive, simple tasks to a computer. We propose here a learner/problem solver architecture for such ...
Jacky Baltes, Bruce A. MacDonald