Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...
In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
As a platform-independent solution, XML is going to be used in many environments such as application integration and Web Services. Security of XML instance is a basic problem, esp...
The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...