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OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Flight Data Recorder: Monitoring Persistent-State Interactions to Improve Systems Management
Mismanagement of the persistent state of a system--all the executable files, configuration settings and other data that govern how a system functions--causes reliability problems,...
Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Arunvijay Kumar, Bra...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Minimal probing: supporting expensive predicates for top-k queries
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Seung-won Hwang
EDBT
2008
ACM
106views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Highly scalable trip grouping for large-scale collective transportation systems
Transportation?related problems, like road congestion, parking, and pollution, are increasing in most cities. In order to reduce traffic, recent work has proposed methods for vehi...
Gyözö Gidófalvi, Torben Bach Pede...
EDBT
2008
ACM
112views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Providing freshness guarantees for outsourced databases
Database outsourcing becomes increasingly attractive as advances in network technologies eliminate the perceived performance difference between in-house databases and outsourced d...
Min Xie, Haixun Wang, Jian Yin, Xiaofeng Meng
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A Future for Software Engineering?
This paper suggests the need for a software engineering research community conversation about the future that the community would like to have. The paper observes that the researc...
Leon J. Osterweil