The growing dependence of modern society on the Web as a vital source of information and communication has become inevitable. However, the Web has become an ideal channel for vari...
Abstract. The current state of the art regarding scalable reasoning consists of programs that run on a single machine. When the amount of data is too large, or the logic is too com...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...
Performing QoS (Quality of Service) control in large computing systems requires an on line metric that is representative of the real state of the system. The Tardiness Quantile Me...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...