Selecting and presenting content culled from multiple heterogeneous and physically distributed sources is a challenging task. The exponential growth of the web data in modern time...
Zero-copy communication exchanges the messages among the buffers that are allocated and locked before the communication itself. This communication style fits into applications th...
Interpreting the outcome of a recent survey on Internet banking in Europe, [CARIGNANI et al., 2000], we point the attention to the adoption of Web technologies in Italian retail b...
Online social media applications have exploded in popularity in the Web. In most of these applications, users interact with other users and create content that becomes available o...
Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires sign...