Many modern applications, from Grid computing to RSS handling, need to support data processing in a distributed environment. Currently, most such applications are implemented usin...
Searching bio-chemical structures is becoming an important application domain of information retrieval. This paper introduces a protein structure matching problem and formulates i...
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
Effective keyword search on image databases is a major open problem, due to the inherent imprecision of keywords (tags) used to describe images' content. In this paper we pre...
Data Stream Management Systems (DSMS) operate under strict performance requirements. Key to meeting such requirements is to efficiently handle time-critical tasks such as managing...
Irina Botan, Gustavo Alonso, Peter M. Fischer, Don...