Abstract. When querying XML collections, users cannot always express their need in a precise way. Systems should therefore support vagueness at both the content and structural leve...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
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...