As the Internet evolved, peer-to-peer networks became one of the major enabling technologies. Alternative solutions for several issues emerged with the use o this technology. Such...
The most costly spatial operation in spatial databases is a spatial join with combines objects from two data sets based on spatial predicates. Even if the execution time of sequen...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks attract much attention from legal and research communities. The success and popularity of P2P networks provides a new paradigm for sharing...
Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Elizabeth ...
The wide availability of mobile devices equipped with wireless communication capabilities together with the technical possibility to form adhoc networks paves the way for building ...
The file is a well-understood and very simple abstraction, which has been successfully used in both centralized and distributed systems. However, files are not expressive enough t...