Mediators – used in federated information systems – provide a homogeneous read-only access to a set of autonomous information sources. To achieve semantic integration of the h...
Grid computing intends to share heterogeneous resources in dynamic service-based environments. This kind of systems has the major advantages of enabling rapid composition of distr...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
Blue Gene R /P is a massively parallel supercomputer intended as the successor to Blue Gene/L. It leverages much of the existing architecture of its predecessor to provide scalabi...
Business workflow management and business process modeling are mature research areas, whose roots go far back to the early days of office automation systems. Scientific workflow ma...