Over the past decade, software architecture research has emerged as the principled study of the overall structure of software systems, especially the relations among subsystems an...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
During the past two decades many di erent pointer analysis algorithms have been published. Although some descriptions include measurements of the e ectiveness of the algorithm, qu...
The University of Pittsburgh's Computing Services and Systems Development organization is focused on the needs of the faculty and student population, totaling nearly 40,000 u...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...