The coordination of interdependencies between tasks in collaborative environments is a very important and difficult endeavor. The separation between tasks and interdependencies al...
Online social network sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and others have grown rapidly, with hundreds of millions of active users. A new feature on many sites is social applications...
Andrew Besmer, Heather Richter Lipford, Mohamed Sh...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...
—Data replications is a typical strategy for improving access performance and data availability in Data Grid systems. Current works on data replication in Grid systems focus on t...
Abstract. We present a formal system that models programmable abstractions for access control. Composite abstractions and patterns of arbitrary complexity are modeled as a configu...