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SIGMOD
2002
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Phoenix Project: Fault-Tolerant Applications
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...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet
EDBT
2006
ACM
106views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Online, Non-blocking Relational Schema Changes
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...
Jørgen Løland, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd
PERCOM
2004
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Modelling and Using Imperfect Context Information
Most recently developed context-aware software applications make unrealistic assumptions about the quality of the available context information, which can lead to inappropriate ac...
Karen Henricksen, Jadwiga Indulska
DCC
2007
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Bit Recycling with Prefix Codes
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...
Danny Dubé, Vincent Beaudoin
DCC
2003
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Video Compression with Intra/Inter Mode Switching and a Dual Frame Buffer
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...
Athanasios Leontaris, Pamela C. Cosman