The Grid approach provides the ability to access and use distributed resources as part of virtual organizations. The emerging Grid infrastructure gives rise to a class of scientif...
Rashid J. Al-Ali, Gregor von Laszewski, Kaizar Ami...
Given the heterogeneous nature of biological data and their intensive use in many tools, in this paper we propose a semantic data access and integration (DAI) service, based on th...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, S...
In this paper we discuss how metaphors for supporting user interaction with multimedia databases can be automatically generated. The work presented is a further step in the develo...
Maria Francesca Costabile, Donato Malerba, Matthia...
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors (CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but lag significantly in terms of performance a...