In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
The amount of available digital multimedia has seen exponential growth in recent years. While advances have been made in the indexing and searching of images and videos, less focu...
Automatic service composition is an active research area in the field of service computing. This paper presents a distributed approach to automatically discover a composition of s...
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of CATS, a network storage service with strong accountability properties. A CATS server annotates read and write res...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...