Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently emerged as a new promising paradigm for supporting distributed computing. Web services, as well as integration-packages relying ...
Abstract. The unprecedented growth and increased importance of geographically distributed spatial data has created a strong need for efficient sharing of such data. Interestingly, ...
Internet coordinate systems have emerged as an efficient method to estimate the latency between pairs of nodes without any communication between them. However, most coordinate sy...
Abstract— Today’s complex appliances are plagued by difficultto-use interfaces. In many cases, consumers use only a few of the many features on their appliances because the mor...