Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for Application Service Provider (ASP). In the ASP context, hosted applications and databases can be update-intensive and must rem...
When the BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center starts in April 1999, it will generate approximately 200TB/year of data at a rate of 10MB/sec for 10 years. A m...
In decision support systems for Intensive Care Units (ICU), the data management subsystem plays an essential role since the data have a heterogeneous origin. The temporal dimension...
The testing of database applications poses new challenges for software engineers. In particular, it is difficult to thoroughly test the interactions between an application and it...
Modern database applications show a growing demand for efficient and dynamic management of intervals, particularly for temporal and spatial data or for constraint handling. Common...