I n recent years, numerous transaction models have been proposed to address the problems posed by advanced database applications, but only a few of these models are being used in ...
Amr El Abbadi, C. Mohan, Divyakant Agrawal, Gustav...
State of the art web search applications allow the user to aggregate information from many sources. Because of this, users are confronted with having to assess the reliability of ...
Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, Henriette S. M. Cramer, Ly...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
Petascale machines with close to a million processors will soon be available. Although MPI is the dominant programming model today, some researchers and users wonder (and perhaps e...
Pavan Balaji, Darius Buntinas, David Goodell, Will...
A general consensus is that the proliferation of locationaware devices will result in a diffusion of location-based services. Privacy preservation is a challenging research issue ...
Claudio Bettini, Sergio Mascetti, Xiaoyang Sean Wa...