Abstract. Parallel relational databases have been successful in providing scalable performance for data intensive applications, and much work has been carried out on query processi...
Sandra de F. Mendes Sampaio, Jim Smith, Norman W. ...
When querying a temporal database, a user often makes certain semantic assumptions on stored temporal data. This paper formalizes and studies two types of semantic assumptions: po...
Claudio Bettini, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Elisa Bertino...
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
This paper reports on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a market-based recommender system that suggests relevant documents to users. The key feature of the system is t...
An important step in the development of dependable systems is the validation of their fault tolerance properties. Fault injection has been widely used for this purpose, however wi...