@Bibtex-file{Distributed/Chbeir.bib,
  title =        "Special issue on Distributed data management",
  author =       "Richard CHBEIR",
  email =        "richard.chbeir@u-bourgogne.fr",
  address =      "LE2I Laboratory (UMR - CNRS)\\
                 Bourgogne University, Aile de l'Ing{\'e}nieur\\
                 Office GS-16\\
                 BP 47870 21078 Dijon CEDEX - FRANCE\\
                 Phone: +333 80 39 36 55\\
                 Fax: +333 80 39 68 69",
  supported =    "yes",
  abstract =     "Since the last decade, the evolution and successful
                 development of a wide range of devices connected via
                 various networks have improved and increased the use of
                 distributed heterogeneous data in many application
                 areas such as medicine, surveillance, cartography,
                 meteorology, security, visual data communications,
                 e-learning, etc. This infrastructure aggregation
                 presents a number of challenges where new appropriate
                 techniques are required to store, extract, organize,
                 interpret, secure, optimize and utilize useful
                 information from these large shared distributed and
                 heterogeneous data. Several research topics are
                 emerging such as : Mobile, virtual and P2P databases,
                 Distributed Information Retrieval, Multimedia Data
                 Management, Semi and Unstructured Datasets Distribution
                 and Clustering, Concurrency Control and Data
                 Recoverability Issues, Replication and Caching
                 Management, Distributed and Network Shared Memory,
                 Mobile and Wireless Database Management, Process
                 Migration and Load Balancing, Distributed Query
                 Processing and Optimization, Security and Trust in
                 Peer-To-Peer Systems, QoS in P2P Systems and Services.
                 In this special issue, we present an interesting
                 variety of recent research papers on various aspects of
                 distributed data management and attempt to shape future
                 directions in this field. All the papers we received
                 for this special issue have been submitted to an
                 independent reviewing process and reviewed by at least
                 two expert reviewers. We have accepted 15 papers out of
                 43 submitted, a rate of 34%, which is highly selective.
                 The structure of this issue is divided into several
                 categories: P2P computing, distributed database
                 operations, multimedia data distribution, location in
                 wireless environment, caching, and semantic-based
                 interoperability.",
  keywords =     "P2P computing, distributed database operations,
                 multimedia data distribution, location in wireless
                 environment, caching, semantic-based interoperability",
}