Web search services are among the most heavily used applications on the World Wide Web. Perhaps because search is used in such a huge variety of tasks and contexts, the user inter...
Intermediate network elements, such as network address translators (NATs), firewalls, and transparent caches are now commonplace. The usual reaction in the network architecture co...
Michael Walfish, Jeremy Stribling, Maxwell N. Kroh...
In order to optimize their revenues and profits, an increasing number of businesses organize their business activities in terms of business processes. Typically, they automate imp...
Marko Vrhovnik, Holger Schwarz, Oliver Suhre, Bern...
Cardinality estimation during query optimization relies on simplifying assumptions that usually do not hold in practice. To diminish the impact of inaccurate estimates during opti...
Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...