Abstract. Interoperability remains a fundamental challenge when connecting heterogeneous systems which encounter and spontaneously communicate with one another in pervasive computi...
Amel Bennaceur, Gordon S. Blair, Franck Chauvel, G...
An important issue arising from XML query relaxation is how to efficiently search the top-k best answers from a large number of XML data sources, while minimizing the searching cos...
Determining attribute correspondences is a difficult, time-consuming, knowledge-intensive part of database integration. We report on experiences with tools that identified candi...
In this paper, a method for efficient scheduling to obtain optimum job throughput in a distributed campus grid environment is presented; Traditional job schedulers determine job s...
Srirangam V. Addepallil, Per Andersen, George L. B...
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...