Scientific workflows are a powerful programming technique for specifying complex computations using a number of otherwise independent components. When used in a Grid environment, ...
The objective of this paper is to present how to design a system that can accommodate additional functionality with either no changes to the design or adding architectural modules...
Wei Zheng, Jike Chong, Claudio Pinello, Sri Kanaja...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Abstract. Designing and programming dependable distributed applications is very difficult. Databases provide features like transactions and replication that can help in the impleme...
Self-Adapting Numerical Software (SANS) systems aim to bridge the knowledge gap that exists between the expertise of domain scientists, and the know-how that is needed to fulfill...