This paper describes XPeer, a zero-administration system for sharing and querying XML data. The system allows users to share XML data without significant human intervention, and t...
Carlo Sartiani, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Ghelli, Giov...
Abstract. Conceptual Information Systems unfold the conceptual structure of data stored in relational databases. In the design phase of the system, conceptual hierarchies have to b...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although c...
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
We present SecureBlox, a declarative system that unifies a distributed query processor with a security policy framework. SecureBlox decouples security concerns from system speci...
William R. Marczak, Shan Shan Huang, Martin Braven...