Recent years have witnessed ever-increasing concerns about
individual privacy in numerous data dissemination applications
that involve private personal information, e.g., medical...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
We introduce a framework for reordering join pipelines at runtime in a database system. This framework incorporates novel techniques for simulating the execution of a join pipeline...
Online approaches to physical design tuning have received considerable attention in the recent literature, with a focus on the problem of online index selection. However, it is dif...
Workflows are widely used for representing business processes, web services, scientific experiments, and activities in daily life, like recipes. There is an increasing need for peo...