In this keynote, we will complement this trend of looking towards the hardware by considering another part of the usual software stack a DBMS is deployed in, and focus towards the application server running the user code. While the interaction and potential synergies between application server and DBMS are often neglected, we will discuss a multitude of optimization opportunities that can be ad...

the exportation of modern novel from european languages to other literatures has long been the object of study and has been, most recently, evoked in discussions of world literature. the introduction of modern novel into the persian literary system through translation occurred about the turn of the twentieth century. the genre was unprecedented in persian and the concept of adabiyat was specifi...

in this article, i compare william faulkner's as i lay dying and sadeq chubak’s the patient ‎stone ‎with respect to the theme of death and from the perspective of existentialism. i argue that ‎despite ‎faulkner’s influence on chubak and similarities in their writings, the iranian modernist novel ‎presents ‎intellectual and aesthetic nuances catering to the domestic material circumstances o...

Many multicriteria problems in economics and finance require that efficient solutions be found. A recent contribution to production theory established a characterization of efficient points under closedness and free-disposability (Bonnisseau and Crettez in Econ Theory 31(2):213–223, 2007, Theorem 1). However, as will be shown using a number of examples, these results cannot be applied to simple...