One of the key issues in product catalogs is how to efficiently integrate and query large, intricate, heterogeneous catalogs. We propose a framework for building a dynamic catalog...
The Atropos logical volume manager allows applications to exploit characteristics of its underlying collection of disks. It stripes data in track-sized units and explicitly expose...
Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao...
This paper presents a new schema-sharing technique for multitenant applications. Our approach is built on top of the Extension table method and makes use of the native XML data su...
Franclin S. Foping, Ioannis M. Dokas, John Feehan,...
Abstract: With information infrastructures getting more and more complex, it becomes necessary to give automated support for managing the evolution of the infrastructure. If change...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...