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POPL
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A theory of contracts for web services
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Giuseppe Castagna, Nils Gesbert, Luca Padovani
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Avoiding File System Micromanagement with Range Writes
We introduce range writes, a simple but powerful change to the disk interface that removes the need for file system micromanagement of block placement. By allowing a file system t...
Ashok Anand, Sayandeep Sen, Andrew Krioukov, Flore...
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Taming Heterogeneous NIC Capabilities for I/O Virtualization
The recent emergence of network interface cards (NICs) with diverse hardware features for I/O virtualization poses an important challenge for virtual machine environments, particu...
Jose Renato Santos, Yoshio Turner, Jayaram Mudigon...
VLDB
2007
ACM
91views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
On Dominating Your Neighborhood Profitably
Recent research on skyline queries has attracted much interest in the database and data mining community. Given a database, an object belongs to the skyline if it cannot be domina...
Cuiping Li, Anthony K. H. Tung, Wen Jin, Martin Es...
VLDB
2007
ACM
260views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
Approaching the Skyline in Z Order
Given a set of multidimensional data points, skyline query retrieves a set of data points that are not dominated by any other points. This query is useful for multi-preference ana...
Ken C. K. Lee, Baihua Zheng, Huajing Li, Wang-Chie...