For example, the phone companies have several cost plans, among which the customer selects one, without negotiation. That paper has also put price negotiation at the heart of its method. J. Sidel, P. A. and et al. Data replication in mariposa . Conf. on Data Engineering .
Name servers provide system metadata including type information, data fragmentation and placement.
In Mariposa, the optimizer is a single site cost based optimizer which minimizes single site resources used to execute the query. The query plan produced by the optimizer is passed into the fragmenter. The fragmenter alters the singlesite plan to reflect the underlying data fragmentation. No context found. J. Sidell, P. M. Aoki, S. Barr, A. Sah, C. Staelin, M. Stonebraker, and A. Yu.