There is a lack of an integrated technology that will increase effective usage of the vast and heterogeneous multi-lingual and multimedia digital content. The need is being express...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, Flickr and Digg, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, e...
Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
Contemporary information systems are replete with log files, created in multiple places (e.g., network servers, database management systems, user monitoring applications, system se...