This paper describes the Query Rewrite facility of the Starburst extensible database system, a novel phase of query optimization. We present a suite of rewrite rules used in Starb...
Hamid Pirahesh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Waqar Hasan
In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised contextsensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. Th...
Reactive systems perform their tasks through interaction with their users or with other systems (as parts of a bigger system). An essential requirement for modeling such systems is...
Revision control systems are a major means to manage versions and variants of today's software systems. An ongoing problem in these systems is how to resolve conflicts when me...
Online word-of-mouth (WOM) communication in the form of online product reviews, such as those provided by consumers who have previously purchased a product, has become a major inf...