In this paper, we present a novel architecture to support large scale stream processing services in a widely distributed environment. The proposed system, COSMOS, distinguishes it...
Yongluan Zhou, Karl Aberer, Ali Salehi, Kian-Lee T...
Information retrieval techniques have to face both the growing amount of data to be processed and the "natural" distribution of these data over the network. Hence, we in...
: This paper presents the MINERVA project that protoypes a distributed search engine based on P2P techniques. MINERVA is layered on top of a Chord-style overlay network and uses a ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum,...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...