We describe Spectra, a remote execution system for batterypowered clients used in pervasive computing. Spectra enables applications to combine the mobility of small devices with t...
Over the last decades, improvements in CPU speed have outpaced improvements in main memory and disk access rates by orders of magnitude, enabling the use of data compression techn...
The use of inaccurate or outdated database statistics by the query optimizer in a relational DBMS often results in a poor choice of query execution plans and hence unacceptably lo...
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, G...
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
Structured community portals extract and integrate information from raw Web pages to present a unified view of entities and relationships in the community. In this paper we argue...
Pedro DeRose, Warren Shen, Fei Chen 0002, AnHai Do...