Interface adaptation allows code written for one interface to be used with a software component with another interface. When multiple adapters are chained together to make certain...
The coordination modelling language Paradigm addresses collaboration between components in terms of dynamic constraints. Within a Paradigm model, component dynamics are consistent...
The GridBASE framework for database-driven grid computing is presented. The design and a prototype implementation of the framework is discussed. Industry-strength database technol...
Large scale networked image retrieval systems face a number of problems that are not fully satis ed by current systems. On one hand, integrated solutions that store all image data...
A data warehouse stores integrated information from multiple distributed data sources. In effect, the warehouse stores materialized views over the source data. The problem of ensu...