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Database Self-Management: Taming the Monster

We describe our experience in the development of self-managing technologies in Sybase SQL Anywhere, a full-featured relational database system that is commonly embedded with applications developed by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). We illustrate how SQL Anywhere’s embeddability features work in concert to provide a robust data management solution in zero-administration environments.

Taming Lakatos' Monster - Computer Virus Epidemics and Internet Security Policy

A few months back I received an email inviting me to speak at WebNet 2000. I was pleasantly surprised and ready to accept until I read the proposed topic of my talk “computer security and computer viruses”. I was dumbfounded. I am a lawyer by training, teaching at a policy school and in my research I focus on information technology policy. Why on earth then do they want me to talk about compute...

Taming the Green-Eyed Monster: On the Need to Rethink Our Cultural Conception of Jealousy

Western culture tends to view romantic jealousy as innate, and as an inevitable byproduct of romantic love. Relying on findings of empirical research, this Note argues that this view, widespread in America, is invidious. Likely as a result of this view, wrongful acts arising from jealousy are often excused or even condoned. This Note draws evidence from empirical studies on the contribution of ...

Taming the Flying Cable Monster: A Topology Design and Optimization Framework for Data-Center Networks

Data-center network designers now have many choices for high-bandwidth, multi-path network topologies. Some of these topologies also allow the designer considerable freedom to set parameters (for example, the number of ports on a switch, link bandwidths, or switchto-switch wiring patterns) at design time. This freedom of choice, however, requires the designer to balance among bandwidth, latency...