Database schema integration is significant not only in building multidatabase systems but also in data warehousing. Metadata, which define schemas, are normally involved in the su...
As information and communication technologies are becoming an integral part of our homes, the demand for AmI systems with assistive functionality is increasing. A great effort has...
Todor Dimitrov, Josef Pauli, Edwin Naroska, Christ...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
e-Science has much to benefit from the emerging field of grid computing. However, construction of e-Science grids is a complex and inefficient undertaking. In particular, deployme...
The goal of the Globe project is to design and build a middleware platform that facilitates the development of large-scale distributed applications, such as those found on the Int...
Arno Bakker, E. Amade, Gerco Ballintijn, Ihor Kuz,...