In conventional database systems, performance is primarily measured by the number of transactions completed within a unit time. In real-time applications, timing and criticality c...
Combining multiple information sources, typically from several data streams is a very promising approach, both in experiments and to some extend in various real-life applications. ...
The development of techniques for supporting incremental maintenance of materialized views has been an active research area for over twenty years. However, although there has been ...
M. Akhtar Ali, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Ferna...
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
Last years have witnessed how crowd simulations have become an essential tool for many virtual environment applications. These applications require both rendering visually plausib...