Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

Abstract Design activities are central to most applied disciplines. Research in design has a
long history in many fields including architecture, engineering, education, psychology, and …

Borealis is a second-generation distributed stream processing engine that is being
developed at Brandeis University, Brown University, and MIT. Borealis inherits core stream …

Serverless is a popular choice for cloud service architects because it can provide scalability
and load-based billing with minimal developer effort. Functions-as-a-service (FaaS) are …

This paper surveys methodological approaches for distributed database design. The design
of distribution can be performed top-down or bottom-up; the first approach is typical of a …

A model for strategic negotiation for intelligent agents. As computers advance from isolated
workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation …

In most enterprises, databases are deployed on dedicated database servers. Often, these
servers are underutilized much of the time. For example, in traces from almost 200 …

The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for
distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic …

Fast dissemination and access of information in large distributed systems, such as the
Internet, has become a norm of our daily life. However, undesired long delays experienced …

The impact on query processing performance of various physical organizations for inverted
lists is compared. A probabilistic mode of the database and queries is introduced. Simulation …