In three-tiered web applications, some form of admission control is required to ensure that throughput and response times are not significantly harmed during periods of heavy load....
In many modern data management settings, data is queried from a central node or nodes, but is stored at remote sources. In such a setting it is common to perform "pushstyle&qu...
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
Today's enterprise databases are large and complex, often relating hundreds of entities. Enabling ordinary users to query such databases and derive value from them has been o...
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...