In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...
Busy academics and professionals are being called upon to manage more and more relationships. Many details of collaboration are accessible in digital libraries and other repositor...
Stephen Farrell, Christopher S. Campbell, Suvda My...
Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) are a natural extension of heterogeneous database systems. One of the main tasks in such systems is efficient query processing. Insisting on co...
Recently several database-based applications have emerged that are remote from data sources and need accurate histograms for query cardinality estimation. Traditional approaches fo...
Service-Orientation (SO) is a design and integration paradigm that is based on the notion of well defined, loosely coupled services. Within SO, services are viewed as computation...