The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Utility computing was a vision stated more than 40 years ago. It refers to the idea that
computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities such as …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,740,357 A 4, 1998 Gardiner et al. 5,768,568 A 6, 1998 Inui et
al. 5,805,820 A 9, 1998 Bellowin et al. 5,809,012 A 9, 1998 Takase et al. 5,940,593. A 8 …

The quality of a query execution plan chosen by a Cost-Based Optimizer (CBO) depends
greatly on the estimation accuracy of input parameter values. Many research results have …

Input data preprocessing is a common bottleneck in machine learning (ML) jobs, that can
significantly increase training time and cost as expensive GPUs or TPUs idle waiting for …

Context Stream processing is a popular paradigm to continuously process huge amounts of
data. Runtime adaptation plays a significant role in supporting the optimization of data …

(65) Prior Publication Data Monitor services deployable on device networks may be
implemented using a modular approach, in which a core US 2007/0283OO2A1 Dec. 6, 2007 …

Résumé Scalable join processing in a parallel shared-nothing environment requires a
partitioning policy that evenly distributes the processing load while minimizing the size of …

6,308, 178 B1 10/2001 Chang et al. 2004/0193703 A1 9/2004 Loewy et al. 6,343,287 B1
1/2002 Kumar et al. 2004/0220910 A1 1 1/2004 Zang et al. 6,363.411 B1 3/2002 Dugan et …

(57) ABSTRACT A service repository is used to store at least one service in association with
service metadata describing service require ments of the service. The service repository also …