In large-scale virtual environments (VEs), there are often several different routes to a target destination. In this paper, we introduce a route preview tool to help users of VEs with the route selection process. Our experiments showed that the proposed route preview tool provides the necessary support to help users select a desirable route.

This paper discusses a new approach for developing a service-oriented infrastructure for distributed data mining applications. The proposed architecture hides the complexity of implementation details and enables users to perform data mining in a utility-like fashion. The service-oriented architecture provides an autonomic data mining framework where selfdescribing data mining services can be automatically discovered on the Internet. Moreover, this structure allows for the implementation of data mining algorithms for processing data on more than one site in a distributed manner. The performance of the proposed distributed data mining framework is compared to a standard data mining approach to demonstrate its effectiveness.