Parallel workstations, each comprising 10-100 processors, promise cost-effective general-purpose multiprocessing. This paper explores the coupling of such small- to medium-scale s...
it’s hardly Earth-shattering: abstracting your business services and separating them from your applications can yield an overall system that’s easier to build, maintain, and ex...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
The emergence of third-generation (3G) mobile networks offers new opportunities for the effective delivery of data with rich content including multimedia messaging and video-strea...
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...