Due to the lack of efficient native XML database management systems, XML data manipulation and query evaluation may be resource-consuming, and represent a bottleneck for several ...
With the ever-increasing use of object-oriented middleware in distributed information systems, new challenges are facing the software engineering profession. Often, it is simply a...
Abstract The consensus problem has recently emerged as a major interest in systems conferences, yet the systems community tends to ignore most of the large body of theory on this s...
Spatial and temporal database systems, both in theory and in practice, have developed dramatically over the past two decades to the point where usable commercial systems, underpin...
John F. Roddick, Max J. Egenhofer, Erik G. Hoel, D...
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm. It aims to share data, calculations, and services transparently among users of a massive grid. Although the industry has started...