The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
Abstract In recent years, many approaches to indexing XML data have appeared. These approaches attempt to process XML queries efficiently and sufficient query plans are built for t...
A question that database administrators (DBAs) routinely need to answer is how long a batch query workload will take to complete. This question arises, for example, while planning...
The wide availability of commodity multi-core systems presents an opportunity to address the latency issues that have plaqued XML query processing. However, simply executing multi...
Automated physical design tuning for database systems has recently become an active area of research and development. Existing tuning tools explore the space of feasible solutions...