The service-oriented architecture (SOA) is becoming increasingly popular as a paradigm for developing new distributed systems and integrating heterogeneous legacy systems. A servic...
Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Data warehouses store large volumes of data according to a multidimensional model with dimensions representing different axes of analysis. OLAP systems (OnLine Analytical Processi...
Open hypermedia systems provide a decoupled approach to structural computing. This entails that the architecture of the systems are made up of user agents that communicate with di...