Internet-Scale Data Management
General consensus is that data volumes available across the Internet are growing at a tremendous pace. Well-known solutions for data management have reached their scalability limits, requiring new and innovative alternatives. This special issue gives a snapshot of some of those alternatives, with articles that address relaxed data consistency, data heterogeneity, NoSQL databases, continuous aggregation queries, and handling of large data sets in Web services. More »
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Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano
A sensor-network application for volcanic data collection relies on triggered event detection and reliable data retrieval to meet bandwidth and data-quality demands. Read full article »
The Rise of People-Centric Sensing
People-centric sensing enables a different way to sense, learn, visualize, and share information. In the MetroSense Project, users are the key architectural system component. Read full article »
Hypergrid: Architecture and Protocol for Virtual World Interoperability
The Hypergrid architecture supports the secure teleporting of user agents between virtual worlds in different administrative domains while preserving user identity. Read full article »
Principles of Elastic Processes
A framework for explicitly modeling elasticity properties of resources, costs, and quality supports more flexible cloud computing services and Internet-scale process automation. Read full article »