When designing a plant for continuous or semi-continuous processes, such as paper pulp or petrochemical production systems, engineers face very complex tasks, which are only in pa...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Service order provisioning is an important telecommunication application that automates the process of providing telephone services in response to the customer requests. It is an ...
Mansoor Ansari, Linda Ness, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Am...
Online approaches to physical design tuning have received considerable attention in the recent literature, with a focus on the problem of online index selection. However, it is dif...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...