A distributed message delivery system can use replication to improve performance and availability. However, without safeguards, replicated messages may be delivered to a mobile de...
Current workflow management technology does not provide adequate means for inter-workflow coordination as concurrently executing workflows are considered completely independent. W...
In this paper, we present READY, a multi-threaded implementation of the CORBA Notification Service. The main contribution of our work is the design and development of scalable sol...
Robert E. Gruber, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Euthi...
Many applications require that large amounts of data are deleted from the database ? typically, such bulk deletes are carried out periodically and involve old or out-of-date data....
In this paper, we develop a general framework for approximate nearest neighbor queries. We categorize the current approaches for nearest neighbor query processing based on either ...
What do you do to make sense of a mass of information on a given topic? Paradoxically, you likely add yet more information to the pile: annotations, underlining, bookmarks, cross-...
Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier, Shawn Bowers, M...
The paper studies the impact of several lock manager designs on the overhead imposed to a persistent programming language by automated object locking. Our study reveals that a loc...
We study the problem of approximately answering aggregation queries using sampling. We observe that uniform sampling performs poorly when the distribution of the aggregated attrib...