The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Run-time conflicts can affect even the most rigorously tested software systems. A reliance on execution-based testing makes it prohibitively costly to test every possible interac...
Michael F. Spear, Tom Roeder, Orion Hodson, Galen ...
Information retrieval systems consist of many complicated components. Research and development of such systems is often hampered by the difficulty in evaluating how each particula...
Daniel M. Dunlavy, Dianne P. O'Leary, John M. Conr...
Applications that query data streams in order to identify trends, patterns, or anomalies can often benefit from comparing the live stream data with archived historical stream dat...
Frederick Reiss, Kurt Stockinger, Kesheng Wu, Arie...
Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...