With the rapid increase in the use of inexpensive, location-aware sensors in a variety of new applications, large amounts of time-sequenced location data will soon be accumulated....
V. Prasad Chakka, Adam Everspaugh, Jignesh M. Pate...
Model management is a new approach to meta data management that offers a higher level programming interface than current techniques. The main abstractions are models (e.g., schema...
Ranking and returning the most relevant results of a query is a popular paradigm in Information Retrieval. We discuss challenges and investigate several approaches to enable ranki...
In this paper, we investigate the benefits and challenges of integrating history into a near-real-time monitoring system; and present a general purpose continuous monitoring engi...
Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this paper, w...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide t...
In this paper, we propose an approach that provides the benefits of isolation in service-oriented applications where it is not feasible to use the traditional locking mechanisms u...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...