It is well known that transactional and analytical systems each require different database architecture. In general, the database structure of transactional systems is optimized f...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...
Situated software systems are an emerging class of systems that are predominantly pervasive, embedded, and mobile. They are marked with a high degree of unpredictability and dynam...
Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, Davi...
Recently, the opportunity of extracting structured data from the Web has been identified by a number of research projects. One such example is that millions of relational-style H...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Xin Luna Dong, Anish Das Sarma, Mi...
Redundancy is the basic technique to provide reliability in storage systems consisting of multiple components. A redundancy scheme defines how the redundant data are produced and...