Conventional implementations of CORBA communication middleware incur significant overhead when used for performance-sensitive applications over high-speed networks. As gigabit ne...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
As multimedia applications spread widely, it is crucial for programming and design support systems to handle "time" in multimedia documents effectively and flexibly. This...
Junehwa Song, Michelle Y. Kim, G. Ramalingam, Raym...
This paper describes the development and evaluation of enhancements to the specialized information retrieval capabilities of a multimodal reporting system. The system enables coll...
Keith J. Miller, Sarah McLeod, Elizabeth Schroeder...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...