This paper presents a machine configuration system which stores all configuration parameters in a central ``database''. The system is dynamic in the sense that machines ...
There has recently been considerable research on physical design tuning algorithms. At the same time, there is only one published methodology to evaluate the quality of different,...
In this paper we investigate the co-authorship graph obtained from all papers published at SIGMOD between 1975 and 2002. We find some interesting facts, for instance, the identity...
With the proliferation of geographic data and resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for integration services that allow a transparent access to massive reposit...
Redundancy and minimization of queries are investigated in a well known fragment of XPath that includes child and descendant edges, branches, wildcards, and multiple output nodes....