In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Work in the new millennium requires globally distributed organizational members to collaborate in groups and make decisions. In general, research has shown that groups that use fa...
For most Web-based applications, contents are created dynamically based on the current state of a business, such as product prices and inventory, stored in database systems. These...
—Automatic service and application deployment and management is becoming possible through the use of service and infrastructure discovery and policy systems. But using the infras...
Robert Adams, Ricardo Rivaldo, Guilherme Germoglio...