This course was an experiment in several respects. For
one, we wanted to teach a systems course with a practical
part in which students apply the material taught to build
the co...
High availability for both data and applications is rapidly becoming a business requirement. While database systems support recovery, providing high database availability, applica...
There has been a great deal of interest in recent years on ranking query results in relational databases. This paper presents a novel method to rank objects (e.g., tuples) by explo...
New laws, such as HIPAA and SOX, are increasingly impacting the design of software systems, as business organisations strive to comply. This paper studies the problem of generating...
Alberto Siena, John Mylopoulos, Anna Perini, Angel...
: The MISTRAL system, a service oriented architecture for semantic extraction of multimedia data from meeting recordings is described shortly. It improves on other similar systems ...