Distributed Grid applications are becoming more and more popular as the use of complex grid middlewares becomes extensive, and more facilities are offered by these complex pieces o...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
To address the need for highly configurable and customizable distributed systems, researchers and practitioners are investigating various innovative approaches. One of the promisi...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...
In this paper we examine, how the benefits of Supply Chain Management, as announced by the literature and widely accepted, can simulatively be proven. We first present selected re...