Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...
Healthcare organisations practicing evidence-based medicine strive to unite their data assets in order to achieve a wider knowledge base for more sophisticated research as well as...
Nowadays many data grid applications need to manage and process a huge amount of data distributed across multiple grid nodes and stored into heterogeneous databases. Grids encoura...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Sandro Fiore, Ma...
Grids currently serve as platforms for numerous scientific as well as business applications that generate and access vast amounts of data. In this paper, we address the need for e...
Scienti c research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and dive...
Betty H. C. Cheng, Robert H. Bourdeau, Gerald C. G...