Abstract. The challenge of building consistent, available, and scalable data management systems capable of serving petabytes of data for millions of users has confronted the data m...
Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Shyam Antony, Su...
More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
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, ...
Manual generation of a book inventory is time-consuming and tedious, while deployment of barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) management systems is costly and afforda...
David M. Chen, Sam S. Tsai, Bernd Girod, Cheng-Hsi...
As software systems grow in size and use more third-party libraries and frameworks, the need for developers to understand unfamiliar large codebases is rapidly increasing. In this...