The adoption of the Internet technologies favors the diffusion of Web and Grid-based applications. However, the development of new applications exploiting the modern interfaces an...
Carbon nanotubes are often seen as the only alternative technology to silicon transistors. While they are the most likely short-term alternative, other longer-term alternatives sho...
Database management systems (DBMSs) have largely ignored the task of managing the energy consumed during query processing. Both economical and environmental factors now require th...
In this paper we present our approach towards a modularized database management system (DBMS) whose components can be adapted at runtime and show the modularization of a DBMS bene...
Recent developments in integer-programming software systems have tremendously improved our ability to solve large-scale instances. We review the major algorithmic components of sta...