The research communityhas considered hash-based parallel joinalgorithmsthe algorithmsof choice for almosta decade. However, almostnone ofthe commercialparallel database systems us...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Joseph Burge...
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
The goal of this paper is to model an agent who dislikes large choice sets because of the “cost of thinking” involved in choosing from them. We take as a primitive a preferenc...
While it has been realized for quite some time within AI that abduction is a general model of explanation for a variety of tasks, there have been no empirical investigations into ...
This article presents doctoral research on tool integration within software engineering environments. Tool integration concerns the techniques used to form coalitions of tools tha...