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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Why is schema matching tough and what can we do about it?
In this paper we analyze the problem of schema matching, explain why it is such a "tough" problem and suggest directions for handling it effectively. In particular, we p...
Avigdor Gal
ICSE
2005
IEEE-ACM
14 years 9 months ago
What you always wanted to know about agile methods but did not dare to ask
A fleet of emerging agile methods is both gaining popularity and generating lots of controversy. Real-world examples argue for (e.g. [4]) and against (e.g. [6]) agile methods. Sev...
Frank Maurer, Grigori Melnik
MIDDLEWARE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do about It?
Abstract. Enterprise-system upgrades are unreliable and often produce downtime or data-loss. Errors in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies, constitute the leading ca...
Tudor Dumitras, Priya Narasimhan
IMC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Sampling biases in network path measurements and what to do about it
We show that currently prevalent practices for network path measurements can produce inaccurate inferences because of sampling biases. The inferred mean path latency can be more t...
Srikanth Kandula, Ratul Mahajan