Architectural description languages are a useful tool for modeling complex systems at a high level of abstraction. If based on formal methods, they can also serve for enabling the...
The upcoming generation of computer hardware poses several new challenges for database developers and engineers. Software in general and database management systems (DBMSs) in par...
Comparing with the rapidly increasing acquiring technology for remotely sensed data, the data processing technologies have been following behind, especially in computing speed and ...
: This paper reveals the evolution of the polymorphic architectures in the context of ever increasing computational demands of the user applications and the need for formal archite...
Database appliances offer fully integrated hardware, storage, operating system, database, and related software in a single package. Database appliances have a relatively long hist...