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Vulnerability of the economy to the potential disturbances of energy supply: A logic-based model with application to the case of China

Edgard Gnansounou, Jun Dong

The disturbances of energy supply that may result from both external and domestic events create a significant threat for national economy due to potential impacts on the productivity, employment and overall economic growth. Building scenarios of the econom ...

Elsevier2010

Database Queries in Java

Christopher Ming-Yee Iu

In conventional programming languages like Java, the interface for accessing databases is often inelegant. Typically, an entire separate database query language must be embedded inside a conventional programming language for programmers to access the full ...

EPFL2010

Improving OLTP Scalability Using Speculative Lock Inheritance

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis

Transaction processing workloads provide ample request level concurrency which highly parallel architectures can exploit. However, the resulting heavy utilization of core database services also causes resource contention within the database engine itself a ...

2009

Drivolution: Rethinking the Database Driver Lifecycle

George Candea, Emmanuel Cecchet

The current design of database drivers – a necessary evil for interacting with a DBMS – imposes undue burdens on those who install, upgrade, and manage database systems and their applications. In this paper, we introduce Drivolution, a new architecture for ...

2009

A Rate-based Prefiltering Approach to BLAST Acceleration

Dionysios Pnevmatikatos, Sotiria Fytraki

DNA sequence comparison and database search have evolved in the last years as a field of strong competition between several reconfigurable hardware computing groups. In this paper we present a BLAST preprocessor that efficiently marks the parts of the data ...

2008

Deferred-update database replication

Rodrigo Malta Schmidt

This thesis is about the design of high-performance fault-tolerant computer systems. More specifically, it focuses on how to develop database systems that behave correctly and with good performance even in the event of failures. Both performance and depend ...

EPFL2008

Universal Bounds for Asset Prices in Heterogeneous Economies

Semyon Malamud

We establish universal bounds for asset prices in heterogeneous complete market economies with scale invariant preferences. Namely, for each agent in the economy we consider an artiﬁcial homogeneous economy populated solely by this agent, and calculate the ...

2008

Design tools for large networks

Bryn Andrew Martin

The Atlas TDAQ network consists of four separate networks which together total over 8000 ports at 1 Gbit/s, 60 ports at 10 Gbit/s, 200 Ethernet switches at the edge of the network, 6 multi-blade chassis switches at the core and over 20 km of copper and fib ...

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Database Replication Using Generalized Snapshot Isolation

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Fernando Pedone

Generalized snapshot isolation extends snapshot isolation as used in Oracle and other databases in a manner suitable for replicated databases. While (conventional) snapshot isolation requires that transactions observe the “latest” snapshot of the database, ...

2005

Generalized Snapshot Isolation and a Prefix-Consistent Implementation

Willy Zwaenepoel, Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Fernando Pedone

2004