Inverted index structures are the mainstay of modern text retrieval systems. They can be constructed quickly using off-line mergebased methods, and provide efficient support for ...
Interoperability usually refers to software system communication. Although there is no widely accepted definition, and therefore no common understanding of the context, there are m...
Online communication media such as email, instant messaging, bulletin boards, voice-over-IP, and social networking sites allow any sender to reach potentially millions of users at...
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel, P. Kris...
The persistent programming systems of the 1980s offered a programming model that integrated computation and long-term storage. In these systems, reliable applications could be eng...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...