Computing aggregates over selected categories of multidimensional discrete data (MDD) cubes is the core operation of many on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. In order to...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...
Parallel scalability allows an application to efficiently utilize an increasing number of processing elements. In this paper we explore a design space for parallel scalability for...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...