Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...
We consider the design of bandwidth-demanding broadcasting applications using overlays in environments characterized by hosts with limited and asymmetric bandwidth, and significa...
Yu-Wei Eric Sung, Michael A. Bishop, Sanjay G. Rao
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
We address the problem of providing transparent, lightweight, fault-tolerance mechanisms for generic peer-to-peer middleware systems. The main idea is to use the peer-to-peer overl...
Rolando Martins, Priya Narasimhan, Luis Lopes, Fer...
Background: Three dimensional biomedical image sets are becoming ubiquitous, along with the canonical atlases providing the necessary spatial context for analysis. To make full us...