Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
In the multimedia field, metadata are becoming increasingly important for efficiently cataloguing the abundant flood of information. (Metadata are data on information structure...
Telecommunication networks process verylarge numbers of events in real time. In this environment, database applications demand both high throughput (at reasonable costs), and pred...
Jerry Baulier, Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abra...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...
: We present an exact and interactive collision detection system, I-COLLIDE, for large-scale environments. Such environments are characterized by the number of objects undergoing r...
Jonathan D. Cohen, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha, Ma...