It is widely recognized that production rules in database systems can be used to automatically maintain derived data such as views. However, writing a correct set of rules for e ci...
This paper investigates helper threads that improve performance by prefetching data on behalf of an application’s main thread. The focus is data prefetch helper threads that lac...
In recent years, publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems based on XML document filtering have received much attention. In a typical pubsub system, subscribed users specify their inte...
This paper describes a model-based approach for designing distributed user interfaces (DUIs), i.e. graphical user interfaces that are distributed along one or many of the followin...
Most of today's structured data is stored in relational databases. Such a database consists of multiple relations which are linked together conceptually via entity-relationsh...