Metacomputing systems are intended to support remote and/or concurrent use of geographically distributed computational resources. Resource management in such systems is complicate...
Karl Czajkowski, Ian T. Foster, Nicholas T. Karoni...
Objects are collected into an object base because of a presumed need for cooperation among them. In classical object bases the cooperation is based on synchronous, preplanned mess...
The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standardizes the development of composite enterprise applications that make use of software components exposed as Web services. BPEL...
Because XML documents tend to be very large and are more and more collaboratively processed, their fine-grained storage and management is a must for which, in turn, a flexible tree...
Commercial databases compete for market share, which is composed of not only net-new sales to those purchasing a database for the first time, but also competitive “win-backs”...
Reynold Xin, Patrick Dantressangle, Sam Lightstone...