Inverted files are widely used to index documents in large-scale information retrieval systems. An inverted file consists of posting lists, which can be stored in either a documen...
During the past decade, object-orientation (OO) has become the dominant software development methodology, accompanied by a number of modeling notations, programming languages, and...
The evolution of distributed applications to reflect structural changes or to adapt to specific conditions of the run-time environment is a difficult issue especially if continuou...
Noel De Palma, Sara Bouchenak, Slim Ben Atallah, D...
A common requirement of many scientific applications is the ability to process queries involving expensive predicates corresponding to user programs. Optimizing such queries is ha...
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez
There are many technologies for distributed processing/interoperation, including CORBA, DCE, DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, Java IDL, JDBC, etc. Most promising, is the emergence of ...
Steven A. Demurjian, T. C. Ting, J. Balthazar, H. ...