The main research in the area of image databases addresses the improvement of retrieval quality and the speedup of the query processing. A number of image retrieval systems reache...
Grid computing and cluster computing platforms are becoming the primary development platforms for pervasive computing. The primary problem associated with both computational grids...
Avinash Shankar, Daniel Saffioti, Ian Piper, Ashwi...
Database administrators struggle when managing workloads that have widely different performance requirements. For example, the same database may support short-running OLTP queries...
Stefan Krompass, Andreas Scholz, Martina-Cezara Al...
—Supporting quality of service (QoS) in large-scale broadband networks poses major challenges, due to the intrinsic complexity of the corresponding resource allocation problems. ...
Service-oriented computing and the ensuing science of services represent significant challenges to academia. As we come to grips with its many implications, we are slowly beginnin...
Sandeep Purao, Vijay K. Vaishnavi, John W. Bagby, ...