“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
We consider the problem of selecting the best among several heavy-tailed systems using a large deviations perspective. In contrast to the light-tailed setting studied by Glynn and...
Abstract. The effectiveness of service oriented computing relies on the trustworthiness of sharing of data between services. We advocate a semi-automated approach for information d...
Government e-services available to citizens represent one of the most frequent and critical points of contact between public administrations and citizens. In addition to common se...