Wrapping databases allows them to be reused in formerly unplanned contexts, such as web-based applications or federated systems. Indeed, a wrapper can provide external clients of ...
Philippe Thiran, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Geert-Jan Hoube...
Web services offer a number of valuable features towards supporting the development of open distributed systems, built out of the composition of autonomous services. Nonetheless, ...
In this work we propose an intuitive graphic framework for the effective visualization of MPEG-7 low-level features, in the context of classification and annotation of audio-visu...
Marco Campanella, Riccardo Leonardi, Pierangelo Mi...
We show how a series of transformations can be applied to a sequential program to obtain programs that represent successive steps in exploiting parallelism in the original algorit...
Lei Pan, Wenhui Zhang, Arthur Asuncion, Ming Kin L...
A growing trend in the development and deployment of grid computing systems is decentralization. Decentralizing these systems helps make them more scalable and robust, but poses s...