After a system crash, databases recover to the last committed transaction, but applications usually either crash or cannot continue. The Phoenix purpose is to enable application s...
A database schema should be able to evolve to reflect changes to the universe it represents. In existing systems, user transactions get blocked during complex schema transformation...
Most recently developed context-aware software applications make unrealistic assumptions about the quality of the available context information, which can lead to inappropriate ac...
Many data compression methods cannot remove all redundancy from a file that they compress because it can be encoded to many compressed files. In particular, we consider the redund...
Video codecs that use motion compensation have recently achieved performance improvements from the use of intra/inter mode switching decisions within a ratedistortion framework. A...