XML is by now the de facto standard for exporting and exchanging data on the web. The need for querying XML data sources whose structure is not fully known to the user and the need...
— While structured P2P systems (such as DHTs) are often regarded as an improvement over unstructured P2P systems (such as super-peer networks) in terms of routing efficiency, it...
Yong Yang, Rocky Dunlap, Mike Rexroad, Brian F. Co...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
Failure models characterise the expected component failures in fault-tolerant computing. In the context of distributed systems, a failure model usually consists of two parts: a fu...
Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, Wilhelm Hasselbring
Apart from visualization tasks, three-dimensional (3D) data management features are not or only hardly available in current spatial database systems and Geographic Information Sys...