Performance is an important quality attribute that needs to be and managed proactively. Abstract models of the system are not very useful if they do not produce reasonably accurat...
Gopalakrishna Raghavan, Ari Salomaki, Raimondas Le...
During the life cycle of an XML application, both schemas and queries may change from one version to another. Schema evolutions may affect query results and potentially the validi...
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...
Embedded devices like smart cards can now run multiple interacting applications. A particular challenge in this domain is to dynamically integrate diverse security policies. In th...
Multiple-dimensional, i.e., polyadic, data exist in many applications, such as personalized recommendation and multipledimensional data summarization. Analyzing all the dimensions...