Workflows are becoming an increasingly more common paradigm to manage scientific analyses. As workflow repositories start to emerge, workflow retrieval and discovery becomes a cha...
This paper presents a novel approach (1) to define, analyze, and map a scientific discipline and (2) to compare and map the expertise of single authors based on personal bibliogra...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Universal access to information and data is an important goal of current research. Previously different forms of information and data, captured by different devices or held on dif...
In this paper we present and evaluate uncoordinated on-line algorithms for simultaneous storage and replication load-balancing in DHT-based peer-to-peer systems. We compare our ap...