System interoperability is a well known issue, especially for heterogeneous information systems, where ontologybased representations may support automatic and usertransparent inte...
Metadata harvesting requires timely propagation of up-to-date information from thousands of Repositories over a wide area network. It is desirable to keep the data as fresh as poss...
Abstract--With the growing computer networks, accessible data is becoming increasing distributed. Understanding and integrating remote and unfamiliar data sources are important dat...
A flow on a directed network is said to be confluent if the flow uses at most one outgoing arc at each node. Confluent flows arise naturally from destination-based routing. We stud...
The Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) is a new heterogeneous multi-core processor from IBM, Sony and Toshiba, and provides the potential to achieve an impressive level of performance for...