Pervasive applications rely on data captured from the physical world through sensor devices. Data provided by these devices, however, tend to be unreliable. The data must, therefor...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Gustavo Alonso, Michael J. Frank...
Allowing loose coupling between complex e-Science applications has many advantages, such as being able to easily incorporate new applications and to flexibly specify how the appl...
Multicasting is an effective method to guarantee scalability of data transfer. Multicast applications range from the relief of Internet hot spots to healthcare alert systems. Much...
Panos K. Chrysanthis, Vincenzo Liberatore, Kirk Pr...
Many general-purpose simulation languages (such as ARENA, SLAM II, GPSS/H, SIMAN etc) have been the major simulation tools to simulate the demand-supply processes. They have made ...
As data management applications grow more complex, they may need efficient distributed query processing, but also subscription management, data archival etc. To enact such applicat...