Since 1993 we compile and publish twice a year a list of the mostpowerful supercomputers in the world. In this article we compare the situation of High-Performance Computing (HPC)...
In this work, we consider augmenting SQL with constructs allowing dynamic restructuring. Dynamic restructuring occurs naturally in a framework including second-order capabilities f...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the interoperability of autonomous legacy databases with the idea of meeting the future requirements of an organization. It describes a general arch...
New applications from the areas of analytical data processing and data integration require powerful features to condense and reconcile available data. Object-relational and other d...
The existing standard for object-oriented databases (ODMG) provides no facility for storing behaviour. This lack of stored behaviour introduces problems for generic applications as...
All resources need to be managed to realize opportunities. Isolating the benefits of Information Technology and relating them to the associated costs has proved elusive and threat...
Enterprise systems entail complex organizational interventions. Accurately gauging the impact of any complex information system requires understanding its multidimensionality, and...
Location-based services (LBS), enabled by advances in mobile and positioning technologies, have afforded users with a pervasive flexibility to be uniquely addressable and to acces...