Support of end-to-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) and ate high-level programming abstractions are two crucial factors for the development of future telecommunication services and dis...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...
In common with many large institutes, CERN has traditionally developed and maintained its own data management solutions. Recently, a significant change of direction has taken plac...
Modeling and rendering of natural scenes with thousands of plants poses a number of problems. The terrain must be modeled and plants must be distributed throughout it in a realist...
Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Bernd Lintermann, Ra...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...