The Wireless environment requires new type of services and new ways for structuring the needed content. Personalization comes into aid via the creation of personalized portals tha...
Software systems in health care, such as disease and medical-record management, or financial applications, such as customer relationship and portfolio management, have very often...
Finding an efficient configuration for cluster-based multi-tier Internet services is often a difficult task. Moreover, even a good configuration could become obsolete, depending o...
We are witnessing an explosive increase in the complexity of the information systems we rely upon. Autonomic systems address this challenge by continuously configuring and tuning ...
Mariano P. Consens, Denilson Barbosa, Adrian M. Te...
Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...