Managerial decisions regarding software functionality additions at Internet portals are interesting to senior managers involved in e-commerce. Portals can leverage software functi...
— Event processing systems link event producers and consumers in a flexible manner, by supporting multiple communication patterns and powerful message transformations. Such syst...
Sumeer Bhola, Mark Astley, Robert Saccone, Michael...
Braess’s Paradox is the counterintuitive but well-known fact that removing edges from a network with “selfish routing” can decrease the latency incurred by traffic in an eq...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
In P2P systems, users often have many choices of peers from whom to download their data. Each user cares primarily about its own response time, which depends on how many other use...