Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
This paper describes CSBase, a framework that allows the development of customized grid environments. CSBase provides end-users with a simplified access to grid resources and app...
Maria Julia de Lima, Cristina D. Ururahy, Ana L&ua...
Workflow mechanism is used into grid system to combine multiple grid services to implement complex grid application. But the workflow is not programmable, and is not flexible enoug...
For speed and convenience, applications routinely cache XML data locally, and access it through standard parser (SAX) or tree (DOM) interfaces. When the source of this data is a r...
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...