Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
By decentralizing control, P2P systems provide efficient, scalable data sharing. However, when sharing data for different purposes (e.g., billing, purchase, shipping, etc.), data ...
Mohamed Jawad, Patricia Serrano-Alvarado, Patrick ...
The sciences, business confederations, and medicine urgently need infrastructure for sharing data and updates among collaborators' constantly changing, heterogeneous databases...
ing Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance MIGUEL CASTRO Microsoft Research and RODRIGO RODRIGUES and BARBARA LISKOV MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Software errors are a major...