Abstract. Grid software often unfortunately requires significant changes in existing infrastructure, both in terms of policy and mechanism, instead of accommodating and leveraging ...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...
Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
Object oriented programming promotes reuse of classes in multiple contexts. Thus, a class is designed and implemented with several usage scenarios in mind, some of which possibly ...
Web image search engine has become an important tool to organize digital images on the Web. However, most commercial search engines still use a list presentation while little effo...