Existing multimedia document models like HTML, MHEG, SMIL, and HyTime lack appropriate modeling primitives to fit the needs of next generation multimedia applications which bring ...
This paper presents thedistributed implementationof ALIAS, an architecture composed of several cooperating intelligent agents. This system is particularly suited to solve problems ...
Anna Ciampolini, Evelina Lamma, Paola Mello, Cesar...
A common problem within most large corporations nowadays is the diversity of database systems that are employed by their many departments in the development of a product. Usually, ...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Ulrich Hermsen, Geor...
As a decision support information system, a data warehouse must provide high level quality of data and quality of service. In the DWQ project we have proposed an architectural fram...
Panos Vassiliadis, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Christoph Q...
This paper presents language features for High Performance Fortran HPF to specify non-local access patterns of distributed arrays, called halos, and to control the communication as...