Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) constitute a new pervasive and ubiquitous technology. They have been successfully used in various application areas and in future computing environ...
Constraint-based database caching aims at correctly answering SQL query predicates from a local cache database by exploiting constraints that have previously been used in selectin...
—Integration of heterogeneous information becomes again a requirement with the emergence of large-scale distributed applications such as Web-Services based Applications. Enterpri...
- Monitoring and controlling a large number of geographically distributed scientific instruments is a challenging task. Some operations on these instruments require real-time (or q...
Chenxi Huang, Peter R. Hobson, Gareth A. Taylor, P...
BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues:...