Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
The size, complexity, heterogeneity, and dynamism of largescale computational grids make autonomic grid services and solutions necessary. In particular, grid schedulers must map a...
Deger Cenk Erdil, Michael J. Lewis, Nael B. Abu-Gh...
The Grid provides facilities that support the coordinated use of diverse resources, and consequently, provides new opportunities for wide-area query processing. However, Grid resou...
Anastasios Gounaris, Jim Smith, Norman W. Paton, R...
Exploiting autonomic adaptation in defending a distributed application is a relatively new research area. We describe how the QuO adaptive middleware was used to implement auto-ad...
Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pratim Pal, Christopher...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...