Network-centric computing aims to solve the problems associated with traditional client/server systems, namely the high performance requirements, and costly maintenance of, the co...
Distributed-memory programs are often written using a global address space: any process can name any memory location on any processor. Some languages completely hide the distincti...
The mediator-wrapper approach to integrate data from heterogeneous data sources has usually been centralized in the sense that a single mediator system is placed between a number o...
It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...
Network monitoring systems that support data archival and after-the-fact (retrospective) queries are useful for a multitude of purposes, such as anomaly detection and network and ...