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ICDE
2006
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
UNIT: User-centric Transaction Management in Web-Database Systems
Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
Alexandros Labrinidis, Daniel Mossé, Huimin...
VLDB
2001
ACM
151views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness
Abstract In this paper we present a mechanism for approximately translating Boolean query constraints across heterogeneous information sources. Achieving the best translation is ch...
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina
SODA
2010
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
16 years 4 months ago
Inapproximability for planar embedding problems
We consider the problem of computing a minimumdistortion bijection between two point-sets in R2 . We prove the first non-trivial inapproximability result for this problem, for the...
Jeff Edmonds, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Anastasios ...
DSN
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
On the Quality of Service of Crash-Recovery Failure Detectors
In this paper, we study and model a crash-recovery target and its failure detector’s probabilistic behavior. We extend Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to measure the recovery d...
Tiejun Ma, Jane Hillston, Stuart Anderson
LCN
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Group Membership Management for Distributed Interactive Applications
Abstract—Distributed interactive applications have become increasingly popular, making it important to address their communication needs, where one of the needs is group communic...
Knut-Helge Vik, Carsten Griwodz, Pål Halvors...