Abstract. Estimating the sizes of query results, and intermediate results, is crucial to many aspects of query processing. In particular, it is necessary for effective query optimi...
Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...
To observe, analyze and control large scale distributed systems and the applications hosted on them, there is an increasing need to continuously monitor performance attributes of ...
Shicong Meng, Srinivas R. Kashyap, Chitra Venkatra...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a crucial component of today’s Internet. The top layer of the DNS hierarchy (the root nameservers) is facing dramatic changes: cryptographically s...
Sebastian Castro, Min Zhang, Wolfgang John, Duane ...
This paper presents a new approach to site-directed recombination, swapping combinations of selected discontiguous fragments from a source protein in place of corresponding fragmen...