Over the past decades, large organisations have developed increasingly complex portfolios of information systems to support business processes. Maintenance and leveraging of these...
Semantic Web Fred, SWF for short, is a contextindependent, goal-driven system for automated execution of tasks that are delegated to electronic representatives along with dynamic ...
Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman, Ioan Toma, Uwe K...
Optical networking may dramatically change high performance distributed computing. One reason is that optical networks can support provisioning dynamically configurable lightpath...
John R. Lange, Ananth I. Sundararaj, Peter A. Dind...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and Web Services (WS) provide a flexible computing platform for electronic business and commerce. Introducing policy-based computing to service-or...