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VLDB
1992
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 1992»
14 years 29 days ago
Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
APPROX
2007
Springer
86views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2007»
14 years 27 days ago
Lower Bounds for Swapping Arthur and Merlin
We prove a lower bound for swapping the order of Arthur and Merlin in two-round MerlinArthur games using black-box techniques. Namely, we show that any AM-game requires time (t2 )...
Scott Diehl
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
EDOC
2009
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Monitoring and Analyzing Influential Factors of Business Process Performance
Abstract--Business activity monitoring enables continuous observation of key performance indicators (KPIs). However, if things go wrong, a deeper analysis of process performance be...
Branimir Wetzstein, Philipp Leitner, Florian Rosen...
FSEN
2009
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Specification and Validation of Behavioural Protocols in the rCOS Modeler
The rCOS modeler implements the requirements modelling phase of a model driven component-based software engineering process. Components are specified in rCOS, a relational calculus...
Zhenbang Chen, Charles Morisset, Volker Stolz