Abstract. Due to the high availability of the Internet, many large crossorganization collaboration projects, such as SourceForge, grid systems etc., have emerged. One of the fundam...
Meng-Ru Lin, Ssu-Hsuan Lu, Tsung-Hsuan Ho, Peter L...
Distributed data management systems consist of peers that store, exchange and process data in order to collaboratively achieve a common goal, such as evaluate some query. We study...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
1 This paper presents a new approach to trusted Grid computing in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) setting. Trust and security are essential to establish lasting working relationships among th...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...