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An introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications: Preface to the First Edition

by Ming Li, Paul Vitanyi , 1997
"... This document has been prepared using the L a T E X system. We thank Donald Knuth for T E X, Leslie Lamport for L a T E X, and Jan van der Steen at CWI for online help. Some figures were prepared by John Tromp using the xpic program. The London Mathematical Society kindly gave permission to reproduc ..."
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on and off from autumn 1987 until summer 1993. One of us [PV] gives very special thanks to his lovely wife Pauline for insisting from the outset on the significance of this enterprise. The Aiken Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; the Computer Science Department

An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure

by Diimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark Hornick, Amit Sheth - DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES , 1995
"... Today’s business enterprises must deal with global competition, reduce the cost of doing business, and rapidly develop new services and products. To address these requirements enterprises must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their information systems and appl ..."
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Today’s business enterprises must deal with global competition, reduce the cost of doing business, and rapidly develop new services and products. To address these requirements enterprises must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their information systems

The anatomy of the Grid: Enabling scalable virtual organizations.

by Ian Foster , • , Carl Kesselman , Steven Tuecke - The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications , 2001
"... Abstract "Grid" computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing, innovative applications, and, in some cases, high-performance orientation. In this article, we define this new field. First, ..."
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contemporary technologies, including enterprise integration, application service provider, storage service provider, and peer-to-peer computing. We maintain that Grid concepts and technologies complement and have much to contribute to these other approaches.

When choice is demotivating: can one desire too much of a good thing

by Sheena S. Iyengar - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 2000
"... Current psychological theory and research affirm the positive affective and motivational consequences of having personal choice. These findings have led to the popular notion that the more choice, the better--that the human ability omanage, and the human desire for, choice isunlimited. Findings from ..."
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of options had been limited. Implications for future research are discussed. Ne quid nimis. (In all things moderation.)--Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), c. 171 B.C. It is a common supposition in modern society that the more choices, the better--that the human ability to manage, and the human desire for

Logicblox, platform and language: A tutorial

by Todd J. Green, Molham Aref, Grigoris Karvounarakis - In Datalog in Academia and Industry , 2012
"... Abstract. The modern enterprise software stack—a collection of applications supporting bookkeeping, analytics, planning, and forecasting for enterprise data—is in danger of collapsing under its own weight. The task of building and maintaining enterprise software is tedious and laborious; application ..."
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of the enterprise software stack centered around a unified declarative programming model, based on an extended version of Datalog. 1 The Enterprise Hairball Modern enterprise applications involve an enormously complex technology stack composed of many disparate systems programmed in a hodgepodge of programming

Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

by Merlin Donald , 1991
"... This book was an attempt to synthesize various sources of information--neurobiological, psychological, archeological and anthropological, among others--about our cognitive origins, in the belief that the human mind co-evolved in close interaction with both brain and culture. I should make clear from ..."
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from the start that I have no illusions about my ability to become expert in all of the disciplines touched on by this enterprise; accordingly my effort should be regarded with suspicion by all; at best, it will probably prove to be no more than a guide to some of the important questions that remain

The Hadoop Distributed File System

by Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, Robert Chansler
"... Abstract—The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is designed to store very large data sets reliably, and to stream those data sets at high bandwidth to user applications. In a large cluster, thousands of servers both host directly attached storage and execute user application tasks. By distributin ..."
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Abstract—The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is designed to store very large data sets reliably, and to stream those data sets at high bandwidth to user applications. In a large cluster, thousands of servers both host directly attached storage and execute user application tasks

Service-oriented computing

by Michael P. Papazoglou, Paolo Traverso, Schahram Dustdar, Frank Leymann - Communications of the ACM , 2003
"... Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications even in heterogeneous environments. The visionary promise of Service-Oriented Computing is a worl ..."
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Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a new computing paradigm that utilizes services as the basic constructs to support the development of rapid, low-cost and easy composition of distributed applications even in heterogeneous environments. The visionary promise of Service-Oriented Computing is a

Temporal databases

by Richard Thomas Snodgrass - IEEE Computer , 1986
"... A temporal database (see Temporal Database) contains time-varying data. Time is an important aspect of all real-world phenomena. Events occur at specific points in time; objects and the relationships among objects exist over time. The ability to model this temporal dimension of the real world is ess ..."
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is essential to many computer applications, such as accounting, banking, econometrics, geographical information systems, inventory control, law, medical records, multi-media, process control, reservation systems, and scientific data analysis. Conventional databases represent the state of an enterprise at a

The WSLA framework: Specifying and monitoring service level agreements for web services

by Alexander Keller, Heiko Ludwig - JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT , 2003
"... We describe a novel framework for specifying and monitoring Service Level Agree-ments (SLA) for Web Services. SLA monitoring and enforcement become increasingly important in a Web Service environment where enterprise applications and services rely on services that may be subscribed dynamically and o ..."
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We describe a novel framework for specifying and monitoring Service Level Agree-ments (SLA) for Web Services. SLA monitoring and enforcement become increasingly important in a Web Service environment where enterprise applications and services rely on services that may be subscribed dynamically
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