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Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering

Summary: Reviews a decade of self-tuning database research, arguing that viable autonomy requires feedback-control loops grounded in mathematical models and engineered into system components. Higher-level self-tuning E-services may require simpler, highly componentized architectures with narrow interfaces. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
9021
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00014085674
Overall Rank
781 | 94.65%
DOI
10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50011-1

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BibTeX Citation

@article{weikum_vldb02,
        title = {{Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering}},
        author = {Weikum, Gerhard and Moenkeberg, Axel and Hasse, Christof and Zabback, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50011-1},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50011-1},
        year = {2002}
}

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3,454 Towards Self-Tuning Data Placement in Parallel Database Systems 2000 SIGMOD 7.4001286e-05
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5,428 Dynamic File Allocation in Disk Arrays 1991 SIGMOD 6.2222186e-05
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