Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
The development of software systems is a complex process involving a variety of individual tasks, collaborative work, and lifecycle management of the resulting products and produc...
Klaus R. Dittrich, Dimitris Tombros, Andreas Geppe...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
Energy costs are quickly rising in large-scale data centers and are soon projected to overtake the cost of hardware. As a result, data center operators have recently started turni...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul A. Shah, Justin Meza, ...