Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
Current developments in processing data streams are based on the best-effort principle and therefore not adequate for many application areas. When sensor data is gathered by inte...
The relative difference between two data values is of interest in a number of application domains including temporal and spatial applications, schema versioning, data warehousing...
John F. Roddick, Kathleen Hornsby, Denise de Vries
Caching techniques have been used to improve the performance gap of storage hierarchies in computing systems. In data intensive applications that access large data files over wid...
The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...