Electronic relationships in the context of electronic commerce and especially in the context of electronic learning and teaching are on the rise. However, besides the well known te...
Distributed discrete event simulation techniques aim at an acceleration of the execution of a self-contained simulation model by the spatial decomposition of that model and the co...
Through the Internet and the World-Wide Web, a vast number of information sources has become available, which offer information on various subjects by different providers, often i...
The World Wide Web has undergone a rapid transition from the originally static hypertext to an ubiquitous hypermedia system. Today, the Web is not only used as a basis for distribu...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...