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...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
Programming has recently become more common among ordinary end users of computer systems. We believe that these end-user programmers are not just coders but also designers, in tha...
Jill Cao, Yann Riche, Susan Wiedenbeck, Margaret M...
Performance non-determinism in computer systems complicates evaluation, use, and even development of these systems. In performance evaluation via benchmarking and simulation, nond...