B-trees have been ubiquitous in database management systems for several decades, and they serve in many other storage systems as well. Their basic structure and their basic operat...
In this paper we look at the application of XML data management support in scientific data analysis workflows. We describe a software infrastructure that aims to address issues as...
Shannon Hastings, Matheus Ribeiro, Stephen Langell...
The garbage collection is a safe and efficient method for managing the heap. However it is not efficient for temporary storages that are allocated often and deallocated quickly. R...
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
Electric energy consumed in data centers is rapidly growing. Power-aware IT, recently called `green IT', is widely recognized as a significant challenge. Disk storage is a no...