Concurrency control is a core component in optimistic replication systems. To detect concurrent updates, the system associates each replicated object with metadata, such as, versi...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Clustering of large data bases is an important research area with a large variety of applications in the data base context. Missing in most of the research efforts are means for g...
Alexander Hinneburg, Daniel A. Keim, Markus Wawryn...
Computer architects are constantly faced with the need to improve performance and increase the efficiency of computation in their designs. To this end, it is increasingly common ...
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In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...