The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...
Ubiquitous access to sophisticated internet services from diverse end devices across heterogeneous networks requires the injection of additional functionality into the network to ...
The clear trend toward the integration of current and emerging applications and services in the Internet launches new demands on service deployment and management. Distributed serv...
Analyzing and controlling large distributed services under a wide range of conditions is difficult. Yet these capabilities are essential to a number of important development and o...
David L. Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, Hakim We...