: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
A recent report by the National Research Council (NRC) declares neural networks “hold the most promise for providing powerful learning models”. While some researchers have expe...
Amy E. Henninger, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Michael Geo...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolving architectural paradigm where businesses can expose their capabilities as modular, network-accessible software services. By decom...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...
In this paper we present a robust software infrastructure for metacomputing. The system is intended to be used by others as a building block for large and powerful computational g...
The emergence of the Internet as a trusted medium for commerce and communication has made cryptography an essential component of modern information systems. Cryptography provides ...