The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
Most applications that access large data objects do so through file systems, but file systems provide an incomplete solution, as they maintain insufficient metadata and do not pro...
Abstract. Spatial data has now been used extensively in the Web environment, providing online customized maps and supporting map-based applications. The full potential of Web-based...
Abstract. Component interfaces, as advanced by the Common Component Architecture (CCA), enable easy access to complex software packages for high-performance scientific computing. ...
Li Li, Joseph P. Kenny, Meng-Shiou Wu, Kevin A. Hu...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...