Introduction

Abstract

The manipulation and handling of an ever increasing volume of data by current data-intensive applications require novel techniques for efficient data management. Despite recent advances in every aspect of data management (storage, access, querying, analysis, mining), future applications are expected to scale to even higher degrees, not only in terms of volumes of data handled but also in terms of users and resources, often making use of multiple, pre-existing autonomous, distributed or heterogeneous resources.

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