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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu
DEXAW
2005
IEEE
117views Database» more  DEXAW 2005»
16 years 3 days ago
Wide-Area Replication Support for Global Data Repositories
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Hendrik Decker, Luis Irún-Briz, Rubé...
BMCBI
2010
154views more  BMCBI 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
EnvMine: A text-mining system for the automatic extraction of contextual information
Background: For ecological studies, it is crucial to count on adequate descriptions of the environments and samples being studied. Such a description must be done in terms of thei...
Javier Tamames, Victor de Lorenzo
DIAL
2004
IEEE
181views Image Analysis» more  DIAL 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Forensic Handwritten Document Retrieval System
Document storage and retrieval capabilities of the CEDAR-FOX forensic handwritten document examination system are described. The system is designed for automated and semi-automate...
Sargur N. Srihari, Zhixin Shi
PDCN
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Speculative prefetching of optional locks in distributed systems
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Thomas Schöbel-Theuer