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SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Middleware-based database replication: the gaps between theory and practice
The need for high availability and performance in data management systems has been fueling a long running interest in database replication from both academia and industry. However...
Emmanuel Cecchet, George Candea, Anastasia Ailamak...
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Populating the Semantic Web by Macro-reading Internet Text
A key question regarding the future of the semantic web is “how will we acquire structured information to populate the semantic web on a vast scale?” One approach is to enter t...
Tom M. Mitchell, Justin Betteridge, Andrew Carlson...
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Self-Adaptive Systems for Information Survivability: PMOP and AWDRAT
Information systems form the backbones of the critical infrastructures of modern societies. Unfortunately, these systems are highly vulnerable to attacks that can result in enormo...
Howard E. Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Robert Balzer, N...
ICSOC
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Assured service quality by improved fault management
The paradigm shift from device-oriented to service-oriented management has also implications to the area of event correlation. Today’s event correlation mainly addresses the cor...
Andreas Hanemann, Martin Sailer, David Schmitz