The spreading of multicast technology enables the development of group communication and so dealing with digital streams becomes more and more common over the Internet. Given the f...
Currently, many industrial initiatives focus on web-based applications. In this context an important requirement is that the user should only rely on a standard web browser. Hence...
This paper focuses on design issues for multimedia distribution architectures and the impact workload characteristics have on architecture design. Our contribution is an analysis ...
Frank T. Johnsen, Trude Hafsoe, Carsten Griwodz, P...
Service oriented computing is an emerging paradigm for programming distributed applications based on services. Services are simple software elements that supply their functionalit...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...