Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
Embedded system optimization typically considers objectives such as cost, timing, buffer sizes and power consumption. Robustness criteria, i.e. sensitivity of the system to variat...
The Java Messaging Service (JMS) facilitates communication among distributed software components according to the publish/subscribe principle. If the subscribers install filter r...
Michael Menth, Robert Henjes, Christian Zepfel, Se...
This paper presents the design of G, a new language specifically created for generic programming. We review and identify important language features of C++ and Haskell in light o...