Data-intensive, interactive applications are an important class of metacomputing (Grid) applications. They are characterized by large, time-varying data flows between data provid...
With the advent and the rising popularity of networks, Internet, intranets and distributed systems, security is becoming one of the major concerns in IT research. An increasing nu...
In 'Associative Caching' each client computer keeps a copy of its query result sets in its own local database. The purpose is to reduce the size and frequency of queries ...
Abstract. Modularity, the recently defined quality measure for clusterings, has attained instant popularity in the fields of social and natural sciences. We revisit the rationale b...
Most traffic management and optimization tasks, such as accident detection or optimal vehicle routing, require an ability to adequately model, reason about and predict irregular an...