Sensor networks are unattended deeply distributed systems whose schema can be conceptualized using the relational model. Aggregation queries on the data sampled at each ode are th...
IBM's SMART (Self-Managing And Resource Tuning) project aims to make DB2 selfmanaging, i.e. autonomic, to decrease the total cost of ownership and penetrate new markets. Over...
Enterprise applications need to be highly available and scalable. In the past, this has required “stateless” applications, which essentially require the application to manage ...
Two approaches for integrating images into the framework of a database management system are presented. The classi cation approach preprocesses all images and attaches a semantic ...
Abstract. Designing and programming dependable distributed applications is very difficult. Databases provide features like transactions and replication that can help in the impleme...