Declarative languages have recently been proposed for many new applications outside of traditional data management. Since these are relatively early research efforts, it is import...
Tyson Condie, David Chu, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Pe...
Semi-join reducers were introduced in the late seventies as a means to reduce the communication costs of distributed database systems. Subsequent work in the eighties showed, howe...
Konrad Stocker, Donald Kossmann, Reinhard Braumand...
High-Level music descriptors are key ingredients for music information retrieval systems. Although there is a long tradition in extracting information from acoustic signals, the fi...
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) often consist of applications that access shared resources such as databases. Since centralized systems may have a great impact on the system...
This paper addresses one of the major problems of SOA software development: the lack of support for testing complex service-oriented systems. The research community has developed v...