“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Software systems no longer evolve as separate entities but are also integrated with each other. The purpose of integrating software systems can be to increase user-value or to dec...
As the complexity of software systems increases, so need for a good mechanism of abstraction. architecture design is an abstraction, hiding an immense amount of details about the ...
Taeho Kim, Yeong-Tae Song, Lawrence Chung, Dung T....
Planning and optimizing urban traffic is a difficult problem, with considerable economic and social impacts. The development of suitable software tools to aid municipal governments...
Abstract. In the context of XML data management systems, the estimation of query cardinality is becoming more and more important: the information provided by a query result estimat...