In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
Voluntary Computing systems or Desktop Grids (DGs) enable sharing of commodity computing resources across the globe and have gained tremendous popularity among scientific research...
Automated recommendation (e.g., personalized product recommendation on an ecommerce web site) is an increasingly valuable service associated with many databases--typically online ...
In the recent years, the massive use of in-car navigation systems has symbolized the emergence of location-based services for wayfinding. This market success creates the opportunit...
This paper, the first in a series of four, presents the conceptual design of a subsystem with integrative function based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), named Geographic...
Fernando Maciel Lima e Sousa, Valdevino Siqueira C...