Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
— It is well-understood that increasing redundancy in a system generally improves the availability and dependability of the system. In server clusters, one important form of redu...
Abstract Bloom filters are extensively used in distributed applications, especially in distributed databases and distributed information systems, to reduce network requirements and...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
Data availability, collection and storage have increased dramatically in recent years, raising new technological and algorithmic challenges for database design and data management...