We design and implement FD-Buffer, a buffer manager for database systems running on flash-based disks. Unlike magnetic disks, flash media has an inherent read-write asymmetry: w...
Sai Tung On, Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Ming Wu, Qion...
Combining and utilizing data from different sources is a common problem in many companies today. Useful data can be found in various applications, such as spreadsheets, project ma...
Systems for managing and querying semistructured-data sources often store data in proprietary object repositories or in a tagged-text format. We describe a technique that can use ...
Different approaches to improve business process have been proposed. One of the most common techniques is based on software agents and workflow technology. A software agent can be...
Marco Repetto, Christian Vecchiola, Antonio Boccal...
With the shift towards chip multiprocessors (CMPs), exploiting and managing parallelism has become a central problem in computer systems. Many issues of parallelism management boi...