A mediator system is a kind of a meta-search engine that provides a seamlessly integrated search service for diverse search engines (collections). Since collections of a mediator ...
The join relational operation is one of the most expensive among database operations. In this study, we consider the problem of scheduling page accesses in join processing. This r...
Andrew Lim, Jennifer Lai-Pheng Kwan, Wee-Chong Oon
In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...
Capability passing processes model global applications in a way that decouples the global agreement aspects of protocols from the details of how the communications are actually ma...
—As transistor feature sizes continue to shrink into the sub-90nm range and beyond, the effects of process variations on critical path delay and chip yields have amplified. A com...