The rapid progress of biotechnology provides an increasing number of life science databases. These databases have been operated and managed individually on the Internet. Under such...
With the proliferation of inexpensive cameras and the availability of high-speed wired and wireless networks, systems of distributed cameras are becoming an enabling technology fo...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
This paper describes the methodology and implementation of a data management system for highly distributed systems, which was built to solve the scalability and reliability proble...
We present MOCHA, a new self-extensible database middleware system designed to interconnect distributed data sources. MOCHA is designed to scale to large environments and is based...