Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
To address the of mining a huge volume of geographically distributed databases, we propose two approaches. The first one is to download only a sample of each database. The second ...
On first glance agent technology seems more like a hostile intruder into the database world. On the other hand, the two could easily complement each other, since agents carry out ...