Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Abstract—Querying non-conventional data sources is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is...
The Globus Toolkit (GT) has been developed since the late 1990s to support the development of service-oriented distributed computing applications and infrastructures. Core GT compo...
With the proliferation of content creation devices, sharing digital contents has become an increasingly common task in our daily lives. This research proposes the “Photo Agent”...
Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Jih-Yin Chen, Ting-Shuang Huang...
Soft state in the middle tier is key to enabling scalable and responsive three tier service architectures. While softstate can be reconstructed upon failure, replicating it across...
Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Rob...