The infrastructure-as-a-service model is one of the fastest growing opportunities for cloud-
based service providers. It provides an environment that reduces operating and capital …

Microservice migration is a promising technique to incrementally modernize monolithic
legacy enterprise applications and enable them to exploit the benefits of cloud-computing …

In distributed systems shared by multiple tenants, effective resource management is an
important pre-requisite to providing quality of service guarantees. Many systems deployed …

An appropriate set of indexes can result in orders of magnitude better query performance.
Index management is a challenging task even for expert human administrators. Fully …

Modern Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems use an integrated data
processing engine that performs analytics on fresh data, which are ingested from a …

A semiautomated feature extraction algorithm is presented for the extraction and
measurement of the hippocampus from volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) head …

Systems software like databases and language runtimes typically manage memory
themselves to exploit application knowledge unavailable to the OS. Traditionally deployed …

Relational Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) platforms today support the abstraction of a
resource container that guarantees a fixed amount of resources. Tenants are responsible for …

Maximizing transaction throughput is key to high-performance database systems, which
focus on minimizing data access conflicts to improve performance. However, finding efficient …

Automating physical database design has remained a long-term interest in database
research due to substantial performance gains afforded by optimised structures. Despite …