It is critical to guarantee the reliability of serviceoriented applications. This is because they may employ remote Web Services as components, which may easily become unavailable...
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
This case study paper reports on the development and implementation of DISXPERT, a rule-based expert system tool for referral of social security disability recipients to vocationa...
Senior executives in public sector organisations have been charged with delivering an e-Government agenda. A key emerging area of research is that of the evaluation of e-Governmen...
Stephen Jones, Zahir Irani, Amir M. Sharif, Marino...
In many applications surfaces with a large number of primitives occur. Geometry compression reduces storage space and transmission time for such models. A special case is given by...