: The next generation of scientific experiments and studies, popularly called e-Science, is carried out by large collaborations of researchers distributed around the world engaged ...
Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Lyle J. Winton
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Background: The proliferation of data repositories in bioinformatics has resulted in the development of numerous interfaces that allow scientists to browse, search and analyse the...
Kevin L. Garwood, Christopher Garwood, Cornelia He...
Abstract Text documents usually embody visually oriented meta-information in the form of complex visual structures, such as tables. The semantics involved in such objects result in...
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...