Metadata management is critical for Grid systems. More specifically, semantically meaningful resource descriptions constitute a highly beneficial extension to Grid environments t...
George Samaras, Kyriakos Karenos, Eleni Christodou...
Distributed Hashtables (DHTs) provide a scalable method of associating file-hashes with a particular location in a distributed network environment. Modifying DHTs directly to suppo...
In order to model the behaviour of open concurrent systems by means of Petri nets, we introduce open Petri nets, a generalization of the ordinary model where some places, designate...
Paolo Baldan, Andrea Corradini, Hartmut Ehrig, Rei...
A collection of distributed databases forms an important architectural component of the ATON project for networked incidence management of highway traffic. The database sub-archit...
Mohan M. Trivedi, Shailendra K. Bhonsle, Amarnath ...
Adaptation techniques for multimedia presentations are mainly concerned with switching between different qualities of single media elements to reduce the data volume and by this ...