— This paper looks at the problem of automatically tuning the database server multiprogramming level to improve database server performance under varying workloads. We describe t...
Scientific and intelligence applications have special data handling needs. In these settings, data does not fit the standard model of short coded records that had dominated the dat...
In the emerging area of sensor-based systems, a significant challenge is to develop scalable, fault-tolerant methods to extract useful information from the data the sensors collec...
Jeffrey Considine, Feifei Li, George Kollios, John...
As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...
Active database management systems have been developed for applications needing an automatic reaction in response to certain events. Events can be simple in nature or complex. Com...