This paper introduces several Business Rules for maximising the revenue of Providers in Cloud Computing Markets. These rules apply in both negotiation and execution time, and enfor...
An adaptive cache coherence mechanism exploits semantic information about the expected or observed access behavior of particular data objects. We contend that, in distributed shar...
Most people consider a database is merely a data repository that supports data storage and retrieval. Actually, a database contains rich, inter-related, multi-typed data and infor...
As meta-data become of ever more importance to the Web, we will need to start managing such meta-data. We argue that there is a strong need for meta-data validation and aggregation...
Word-based Huffman coding has widespread use in information retrieval systems. Besides its compressing power, it also enables the implementation of both indexing and searching sch...