: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
Caches are designed to provide the best tradeoff between access speed and capacity for a set of target applications. Unfortunately, different applications, and even different phas...
— Service Composition is a promising technology for providing on-demand services in dynamic and loosely coupled peerto-peer (P2P) networks. Because of system dynamics, such as th...
Future digital entertainment services available to home users will share several characteristics: i) they will be deployed and delivered through the Internet, ii) a single media c...
Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Marco Roccetti, ...
Embedded application requirements, including high performance, low power consumption and fast time to market, are uncommon in the broader domain of general purpose applications. I...