Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
A major performance bottleneck for database systems is the memory hierarchy. The performance of the memory hierarchy is directly related to how the content of disk pages maps to t...
This paper addresses the problem of establishing collaboration between devices in a home environment, even when no previous knowledge is known or stored on the devices. It focuses...
This paper presents a knowledge-sharing framework for achieving effective knowledge reuse within industrial organisations. This knowledge re-use paradigm goes beyond traditional e...
Abstract. Advances in web technology have given rise to new information retrieval applications. In this paper, we present a model for geographical region search and call this class...