Wide-area distributed applications are frequently limited by the performance of Internet data transfer. We argue that the principle cause of this effect is the poor interaction be...
Abstract. The aim of component technology is the replacement of large monolithic applications with sets of smaller software components, whose particular functionality and interoper...
Object relationships in modern software systems are becoming increasingly numerous and complex. Programmers who try to find violations of such relationships need new tools that al...
Abstract. Good estimates of join result sizes are critical for query optimization in relational database management systems. We address the problem of incrementally obtaining accur...
In this paper, we address the problem of supporting more exibility on the schema of object-oriented databases. We describe a general framework based on an object-oriented data mode...