The most costly spatial operation in spatial databases is a spatial join with combines objects from two data sets based on spatial predicates. Even if the execution time of sequen...
Abstract. As data volumes processed by large-scale distributed dataintensive applications grow at high-speed, an increasing I/O pressure is put on the underlying storage service, w...
In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
We present the framework of a new grid architecture based on the peer-to-peer and the component paradigms. In our architecture, several peer-to-peer components are loosely coupled...