Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...
In this paper, we discuss a prototype application deployed at the U.S. National Science Foundation for assisting program directors in identifying reviewers for proposals. The appl...
Enabling mobility in urban and populous areas needs innovative tools and novel techniques for individual traffic planning. We present a prototype of a traffic information system e...
— Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies scheduling algorithms for in...
In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...