We propose an object-oriented framework for one of the most frequent and costly operations in parallel database systems: the parallel join. The framework independently captures a ...
Modern distributed systems that have to avoid performance degradation and system overload require several runtime management decisions for load balancing and load sharing, overloa...
Abstract. With many organizations now employing multiple data centres around the world to share global traffic load, it is important to understand the effects of geographical distr...
The complexity of services and applications provided by Web sites is ever increasing as integration of traditional Web publishing sites with new paradigms, i.e., e-commerce. Each d...
The M-tree is a paged, dynamically balanced metric access method that responds gracefully to the insertion of new objects. Like many spatial access methods, the M-tree's perfo...