Recovery activities, like logging, checkpointing and restart, are used to restore a database to a consistent state after a system crash has occurred. Recovery related overhead is ...
H. V. Jagadish, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan
Traditional DBMSs decouple statistics collection and query optimization both in space and time. Decoupling in time may lead to outdated statistics. Decoupling in space may cause s...
Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl...
Integrated circuit cards or smart cards are now well-known. Applications such as electronic purses (cash units stored in cards), subscriber identification cards used in cellular te...
—Interaction with mobile devices that are intended for everyday use is challenging since such systems are continuously optimized towards small outlines. Watches are a particularl...
Roman Amstutz, Oliver Amft, Brian French, Asim Sma...
There is a general consensus on the importance of good Requirements Engineering (RE) for achieving high quality software. The modeling and analysis of requirements have been the m...