Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
One of the objectives of e-Research is to help scientists to accomplish their research, including scientific experiments, more effectively and efficiently. Web services provide ...
Donglai Zhang, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wende...
Self-managing systems able to dynamically re-configure with respect to time-varying workload mixes and changing system resource availability are of growing importance in heterogen...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson, Gabriele Kotsis, Cos...
A grid has to provide strong incentive for participating sites to join and stay in it. Participating sites are concerned with the performance improvement brought by the gird for th...
In this paper, we present SURCH, a novel decentralized algorithm for efficient processing of queries generated in sensor networks. Unlike existing techniques, SURCH is fully dist...