Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
In smart item environments, multitude of sensors are applied to capture data about product conditions and usage to guide business decisions as well as production automation proces...
Anja Klein, Hong Hai Do, Gregor Hackenbroich, Marc...
Most database interfaces provide poor guidance on ad hoc query formulation, burdening users to learn, and to recall precisely the query language and the database. Kaleidoscope avo...
Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can be very useful in m...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...
As increasingly larger memories are used to bridge the widening gap between processor and disk speeds, main memory energy consumption is becoming increasingly dominant. Even thoug...