The server side of business software systems is commonly implemented today by an ensemble of Java classes distributed over several hosts. In this scenario, it is often necessary, ...
Marco Milazzo, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramo...
Clusters of networked, off-the-shelf workstations are currently used for computationintensive, parallel applications. However, it is hardly possible to predict the timing behaviou...
Semantic caching augments cached data with a semantic description of the data. These semantic descriptions can be used to improve execution time for similar queries by retrieving ...
Norvald H. Ryeng, Jon Olav Hauglid, Kjetil N&oslas...
High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers (HPRCs) are parallel machines consisting of FPGAs and microprocessors, with the FPGAs used as co-processors. The execution of parallel app...
Esam El-Araby, Vikram K. Narayana, Tarek A. El-Gha...
We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...