Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...
Traditional workload management methods mainly focus on the current system status while information about the interaction between queued and running transactions is largely ignore...
Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Curt J. Ellmann, Mi...
It has frequently been observed that most of the world’s data lies outside database systems. The reason is that database systems focus on structured data, leaving the unstructur...
Alon Y. Halevy, Oren Etzioni, AnHai Doan, Zachary ...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...
Backgorund: The completion of the Human Genome Project has resulted in large quantities of biological data which are proving difficult to manage and integrate effectively. There i...
Paolo Romano 0001, Domenico Marra, Luciano Milanes...