The paper describes recent progress in research on database system support for executing multimedia presentations. It proposes the general concept of Reactive Playout Management t...
Heiko Thimm, Wolfgang Klas, Jonathan Walpole, Calt...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
With the increasing number of geographical image databases on the Internet, it is a very important issue to know about the most relevant image databases for given user queries, in...
Data replication is a central technique to increase availability and performance of distributed systems. While offering many advantages it also requires more effort for ensuring d...
Daniel Klan, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Katja Hose, Marcel K...
ion. riented language features, such as abstract classes, inheritance, dynamic binding, and parameterized types. Middleware, such as object-oriented frameworks for host infrastruct...