Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
Traditionally, distributed computing problems have been solved by partitioning data into chunks able to be handled by commodity hardware. Such partitioning is not possible in case...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
We present Nyaya, a system for the management of Semantic-Web data which couples a general-purpose and extensible storage mechanism with efficient ontology reasoning and querying ...
Roberto De Virgilio, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, ...
A huge amount of data and metadata emerges from Web 2.0 applications which have transformed the Web to a mass social interaction and collaboration medium. Collaborative Tagging Sy...
Eirini Giannakidou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Athena V...