Self-tuning is a cost-effective and elegant solution to the important problem of configuring a database to the characteristics of the query load. Existing techniques operate in an...
Karl Schnaitter, Serge Abiteboul, Tova Milo, Neokl...
The emergence of the Web has increased interests in XML data. XML query languages such as XQuery and XPath use label paths to traverse the irregularly structured data. Without a s...
In this paper we present a formal approach to analyse performance for distributed systems, which is integrated in the early stages of the software development process. We propose ...
Lazy learning is a memory-based technique that, once a query is received, extracts a prediction interpolating locally the neighboring examples of the query which are considered re...
Transactional memory promises to make parallel programming easier than with fine-grained locking, while performing just as well. This performance claim is not always borne out bec...