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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu
ICDT
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Automatic verification of data-centric business processes
We formalize and study business process systems that are centered around "business artifacts", or simply "artifacts". This approach focuses on data records, kn...
Alin Deutsch, Richard Hull, Fabio Patrizi, Victor ...
TDSC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Underutilized CPU Resources to Enhance Its Reliability
—Soft errors (or Transient faults) are temporary faults that arise in a circuit due to a variety of internal noise and external sources such as cosmic particle hits. Though soft ...
Avi Timor, Avi Mendelson, Yitzhak Birk, Neeraj Sur...
AAMAS
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Argumentation and the Dynamics of Warranted Beliefs in Changing Environments
One of the most difficult problems in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) involves representing the knowledge and beliefs of an agent which performs its tasks in a dynamic environment. New p...
Marcela Capobianco, Carlos Iván Chesñ...
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Javari: adding reference immutability to Java
This paper describes a type system that is capable of expressing and enforcing immutability constraints. The speonstraint expressed is that the abstract state of the object to whi...
Matthew S. Tschantz, Michael D. Ernst