Variable annuities are very appealing to the investor. For example, in United States, sales volume on variable annuities grew to a record 184 billion in calendar year 2006. Howeve...
The problem of scalable and robust distributed data storage has recently attracted a lot of attention. A common approach in the area of peer-to-peer systems has been to use a dist...
The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
Many advanced data management operations (e.g., incremental maintenance, trust assessment, debugging schema mappings, keyword search over databases, or query answering in probabil...
Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. Ives, Val Tanne...