Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Distributed processing environments such as that of a traffic management network system (TMS) can be implemented easier, faster, and secure and perform better through use of auton...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
Abstract—To enable decentralised actions in very large distributed systems, it is often important to provide the nodes with global knowledge about the values of attributes across...
Jan Sacha, Jeff Napper, Corina Stratan, Guillaume ...
Application designers of collaborative distributed Virtual Environments must account for the influence of the network connection and its detrimental effects on user performance. ...
Alexey Tumanov, Robert S. Allison, Wolfgang St&uum...