In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online commercial activity enabled by the World Wide Web. An electronic marketplace (e-market) provides an online method to perf...
Adriano M. Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr.,...
Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
Software has spent the bounty of Moore’s law by solving harder problems and exploiting abstractions, such as highlevel languages, virtual machine technology, binary rewritdynami...
Jungwoo Ha, Matthew Arnold, Stephen M. Blackburn, ...
Online auction sites have unique workloads and user behavior characteristics that do not exist in other e-commerce sites. Earlier studies by the authors identified i) significan...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...