The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Data caches are essential in modern processors, bridging the widening gap between main memory and processor speeds. However, they yield very complex performance models, which make...
Today’s object-relational DBMSs (ORDBMSs) are designed to support novel application domains by providing an extensible architecture, supplemented by domain-specific database ex...
Data Warehouse logical design involves the definition of structures that enable an efficient access to information. The designer builds relational or multidimensional structures ta...
Recent techniques for multicast or broadcast delivery of streaming media can provide immediate service to each client request yet achieve considerable client stream sharing (i.e.,...