Many commercial database systems maintain histograms to summarize the contents of relations and permit efficient estimation of query result sizes and access plan costs. Although s...
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. H...
Snap-shot mechanisms are used to read a globally consistent set of variable values. Such a mechanism can be used to solve a variety of communication and synchronization problems, ...
Andreas Ermedahl, Hans Hansson, Marina Papatrianta...
To effectively support today's global economy, database systems need to store and manipulate text data in multiple languages simultaneously. Current database systems do suppor...
The monitoring of unused Internet address space has been shown to be an effective method for characterizing Internet threats including Internet worms and DDOS attacks. Because the...
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, D...
People often find useful content on the web via social media. However, it is difficult to manually aggregate the information and recommendations embedded in a torrent of social ...