In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
Recent advances in device technology and connectivity have paved the way for next generation applications that are data-driven, where data can reside anywhere, can be accessed at ...
We have previously described a hybrid keyword search that combines metadata search with a traditional keyword search over unstructured context data. This hybrid search paradigm pro...
Replication is an area of interest to both distributed systems and databases. The solutions developed from these two perspectives are conceptually similar but differ in many aspec...
Existing federated database systems (FDBS) provide uniform access to multiple heterogeneous DBS, but do not enable objects to move across the DBS while retaining global identity. ...