Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
The study presented in this paper is motivated by the performance analysis of response times in distributed information systems, where transactions are handled by iterative server...
Robert D. van der Mei, Bart Gijsen, N. in't Veld, ...
The distributed information technologies collectively known as Web services recently have demonstrated powerful capabilities for scalable interoperation of heterogeneous software a...
J. Mark Pullen, Ryan Brunton, Donald P. Brutzman, ...
In this paper we present a VRML97-X3D extension to describe precomputed visibility relationships in the context of progressive transmission as well as real time visualization of m...
Does the advent of flash devices constitute a radical change for secondary storage? How should database systems adapt to this new form of secondary storage? Before we can answer t...