Web processes must often operate in volatile environments where the quality of service parameters of the participating service providers change during the life time of the process...
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
We present a general scheme for virtualizing main memory errorcorrection mechanisms, which map redundant information needed to correct errors into the memory namespace itself. We ...
Abstract. A Wide-Area Sensor Network (WASN) is a collection of heterogeneous sensor networks and data repositories spread over a wide geographic area. The diversity of sensor types...
The paper discusses the use of electronic publishing for the preservation and dissemination of rare manuscript material. It is based both upon the authors’ earlier work on multi...