Medical Information Systems (MIS) in general, like any other complex and large system, can be based on centralized or distributed DBMS. Centralized system is much easier for implem...
Tatjana Stankovic, Srebrenko Pesic, Dragan Jankovi...
—The development of mobile ad hoc systems have considerably emphasized the need for a better understanding of the factors that influence the systems’ performance, i.e., mobili...
Franck Legendre, Martin May, Vincent Lenders, Gunn...
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a new delivery method for TV. In contrast with native broadcast in traditional cable and satellite TV system, video streams in I...
Determining the provenance of data, i.e. the process that led to that data, is vital in many disciplines. For example, in science, the process that produced a given result must be...
Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, Michael Luck, Luc Morea...
The multi-level storage architecture has been widely adopted in servers and data centers. However, while prefetching has been shown as a crucial technique to exploit the sequentia...