The market for software components is growing, driven on the "demand side" by the need for rapid deployment of highly functional products, and on the "supply side&q...
Abstract. This text describes how persistent object system technology developed in European basic research is being used by a small German startup software company to realize innov...
Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmi...
Many emerging application domains require database systems to support efficient access over highly multidimensional datasets. The current state-of-the-art technique to indexing hi...
Approximate query answering systems provide very fast alternatives to OLAP systems when applications are tolerant to small errors in query answers. Current sampling-based approach...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...