Abstract. Parallel relational databases have been successful in providing scalable performance for data intensive applications, and much work has been carried out on query processi...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Jim Smith, Norman W. ...
Preserving and fostering knowledge is the vital interest of a network-like virtual organization. The decentralized and geographically distributed organizational structure inhibits...
Group communication systems are powerful building blocks that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. Such systems generally run in an asynchronous ...
Empirical evaluation of software systems in actual usage situations is critical in software engineering. Prototyping, beta testing, and usability testing are widely used to refine...
In data mining, similarity or distance between attributes is one of the central notions. Such a notion can be used to build attribute hierarchies etc. Similarity metrics can be us...