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SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating constraint queries, i.e., Boolean expressions of constraints, across heterogeneous information sources. Integrating such syste...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
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Client-Site Query Extensions
We explore the execution of queries with client-site userdefined functions (UDFs). Many UDFs can only be executed at the client site, for reasons of scalability, security, confide...
Tobias Mayr, Praveen Seshadri
WACC
1999
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Virtual environments at work: ongoing use of MUDs in the workplace
In recent years much attention has been paid to networkbased, distributed environments like text-based MUDs and MOOs for supporting collaborative work. Such environments offer a s...
Elizabeth F. Churchill, Sara A. Bly
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
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Improving virtual function call target prediction via dependence-based pre-computation
We introduce dependence-based pre-computation as a complement to history-based target prediction schemes. We present pre-computation in the context of virtual function calls (v-ca...
Amir Roth, Andreas Moshovos, Gurindar S. Sohi
PODC
1998
ACM
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Probabilistic Byzantine Quorum Systems
ÐIn this paper, we explore techniques to detect Byzantine server failures in asynchronous replicated data services. Our goal is to detect arbitrary failures of data servers in a s...
Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Avishai Wool, Re...