Sciweavers

896 search results - page 169 / 180
» Stepwise Refinement of Processes
Sort
View
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
120views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Muse: a system for understanding and designing mappings
Schema mappings are logical assertions that specify the relationships between a source and a target schema in a declarative way. The specification of such mappings is a fundamenta...
Bogdan Alexe, Laura Chiticariu, Renée J. Mi...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
204views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 8 months ago
Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance
As more and more query processing work can be done in main memory, memory access is becoming a significant cost component of database operations. Recent database research has show...
Jingren Zhou, Kenneth A. Ross
EDBT
2002
ACM
125views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Estimating Answer Sizes for XML Queries
Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
Yuqing Wu, Jignesh M. Patel, H. V. Jagadish
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Analysis of a Redundant Architecture for Critical Infrastructure Protection
Critical infrastructures like the power grid are emerging as collection of existing separated systems of different nature which are interconnected together. Their criticality becom...
Alessandro Daidone, Andrea Bondavalli, Paulo Ver&i...
FDG
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A requirements analysis for videogame design support tools
Designing videogames involves weaving together systems of rules, called game mechanics, which support and structure compelling player experiences. Thus a significant portion of ga...
Mark J. Nelson, Michael Mateas