Big data is the tar sands of the data world: vast reserves of raw gritty data whose valuable information content can only be extracted at great cost. MapReduce is a popular parall...
In this paper, we detail specifications of a Visualization On-Demand (VizOD) server. We show that packaging information visualization processes into services reachable over a netw...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) showed their insufficiencies in front of complex requests for decision-makers. Resulting of the association of the databases and the decision-m...
Replicating data over a cluster of workstations is a powerful tool to increase performance, and provide faulttolerance for demanding database applications. The big challenge in su...
A multi-tenant database system for Software as a Service (SaaS) should offer schemas that are flexible in that they can be extended for different versions of the application and d...
Stefan Aulbach, Dean Jacobs, Alfons Kemper, Michae...