A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
Avionics data at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) consists of distributed, unmanaged, and heterogeneous information tha...
Classically, software deployment is a process consisting of building the software, packaging it for distribution, and installing it at the target site. This approach has two proble...
Developing and managing applications for environments consisting of independently congured computing systems interoperating acrossnetwork connections is of considerable interest ...