The success of a company increasingly depends on timely information (internal or external) being available to the right person at the right time for crucial managerial decision-ma...
Andrew N. K. Chen, Paulo B. Goes, Alok Gupta, Jame...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
A challenging question is how XML can be used to support distributed databases. This leads to the problem of how to obtain a suitable, cost-efficient distribution design for XML do...
The quality of database distribution design, which involves fragmentation and allocation, should be assessed by the performance of a system. In particular, this applies to non-rel...
at different levels of abstraction. There are two very different ways of using such languages. One approach is based on the manifestation of a single model, with construction of di...