: The effectiveness of semantic applications can be increased significantly if the system does not urge the users to take care of explicit semantic annotation creation. Today, sema...
—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
Traditionally, designers organize software system as active end-points (e.g. applications) linked by passive infrastructures (e.g. networks). Increasingly, however, networks and i...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Jon Howell, Anthon...
The problem of answering queries using views is to find efficient methods of answering a query using a set of previously materialized views over the database, rather than accessin...
Over the past two years, horrific disasters such as the Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Pakistan Earthquake have demonstrated the critical need for effective technologic...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pe...