In today’s OLAP systems, integrating fast changing data, e.g., stock quotes, physically into a cube is complex and time-consuming. The widespread use of XML makes it very possib...
Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...
A growing trend in the development and deployment of grid computing systems is decentralization. Decentralizing these systems helps make them more scalable and robust, but poses s...
With the increasing ubiquity of sensors and computational resources, it is becoming easier and increasingly common for people to electronically record, photographs, text, audio, a...
Data intensive service functions such as memory allocation/de-allocation, data prefetching, and data relocation can pollute processor cache in conventional systems since the same ...