Aliasing occurs in Web transactions when requests containing different URLs elicit replies containing identical data payloads. Conventional caches associate stored data with URLs ...
Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise bu...
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
In the process of developing an Information System, one passes through stages that include requirements gathering, design specification, and software implementation. The purpose ...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Joachim W. Sch...
Abstract. We present protocols for distributed computation of relational intersections and equi-joins such that each site gains no information about the tuples at the other site th...