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VLDB
2005
ACM
185views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 11 months ago
Storing and querying XML data using denormalized relational databases
XML database systems emerge as a result of the acceptance of the XML data model. Recent works have followed the promising approach of building XML database management systems on un...
Andrey Balmin, Yannis Papakonstantinou
MOBISYS
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Mimic: Raw Activity Shipping for File Synchronization in Mobile File Systems
In this paper, we consider the problem of file synchronization when a mobile host shares files with a backbone file server in a network file system. Several diff schemes have been...
Tae-Young Chang, Aravind Velayutham, Raghupathy Si...
SIGMETRICS
2009
ACM
103views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Restrained utilization of idleness for transparent scheduling of background tasks
A common practice in system design is to treat features intended to enhance performance and reliability as low priority tasks by scheduling them during idle periods, with the goal...
Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska, Xin Li, Evgenia Smirni, E...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
130views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Governance of the IT Function: Valuing Agility and Quality of Training, Cooperation and Communications
It has long been argued that the organizational structure and reporting relationships of the IT functional area profoundly affects organizational performance. However, since most ...
Felipe Csaszar, Eric K. Clemons
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Challenger: A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...
Anthony Chavez, Alexandros Moukas, Pattie Maes