A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...
Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
Building dependable distributed systems using ad hoc methods is a challenging task. Without proper support, an application programmer must face the daunting requirement of having ...
Jennifer Ren, Michel Cukier, Paul Rubel, William H...
A data warehouse collects and integrates data from multiple, autonomous, heterogeneous, sources. The warehouse e ectively maintains one or more materialized views over the source ...
Janet L. Wiener, Himanshu Gupta, Wilburt Labio, Yu...
Different distributed real-time systems (DRS) must handle aperiodic and periodic events under diverse sets of requirements. While existing middleware such as Real-Time CORBA has sh...