Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
—The standard way to scale a distributed OLTP DBMS is to horizontally partition data across several nodes. Ideally, this results in each query/transaction being executed at just ...
Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones,...
With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of quer...
Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...
Abstract The protection of customer privacy is a fundamental issue in today's corporate marketing strategies. Not surprisingly, many research efforts have proposed new privacy...