As the use of virtualization and partitioning grows, it becomes possible to deploy a multi-tier web-based application with a variable amount of computing power. This introduces th...
Data stream management systems need to control their resources adaptively since stream characteristics and query workload may vary over time. In this paper we investigate an approa...
Model checking is a promising approach to automatic verification, which has concentrated on specification expressed in temporal logic. Comparatively little attention has been give...
Grid computing is becoming the natural way to aggregate and share large sets of heterogeneous resources. With the infrastructure becoming ready for the challenge, current grid dev...
Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...