As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing...
The paper considers distributed applications where interactions between constituent services take place via messages in an asynchronous environment with unpredictable communicatio...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...
Query optimizers rely on fast, high-quality estimates of result sizes in order to select between various join plans. Selfjoin sizes of relations provide bounds on the join size of...
Noga Alon, Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias, Mario...
In recent years, Web Services have become the key technology for building flexible and interoperable computing infrastructure. However, to realize the vision of a full-fletched ...