In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
A cracked database is a datastore continuously reorganized based on operations being executed. For each query, the data of interest is physically reclustered to speed-up future ac...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
This paper describes the methodology and implementation of a data management system for highly distributed systems, which was built to solve the scalability and reliability proble...
Software must be adapted to accommodate new features in the context of changing requirements. In this paper, we illustrate how applications with aspect weaving capabilities can be...
We present a software tool and a framework for security protocol change management. While we focus on trust negotiation protocols in this paper, many of the ideas are generally ap...