Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...
The widespread deployment of inexpensive communications technology, computational resources in the networking infrastructure, and network-enabled end devices poses an interesting ...
Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, Todd D. Hodes, ...
As the power of mobile devices continues to grow, and the range of resources accessible via wireless networks expands, there is an increasing need to offer services to users in a ...
Markus Aleksy, Colin Atkinson, Philipp Bostan, Tho...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
This paper describes the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery service for widearea distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows ...
David L. Oppenheimer, Jeannie R. Albrecht, David A...