We observe that an effect of "disk resource sharing" of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observatio...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
Imagine that you have been entrusted with private data, such as corporate product information, sensitive government information, or symptom and treatment information about hospita...
Nicolas Anciaux, Mehdi Benzine, Luc Bouganim, Phil...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store in personal information management systems, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve of...
Disk I/O is a major bottleneck for query processing in database applications. This bottleneck is especially a problem for temporal databases because of their large size. Reduction...
A k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) query retrieves k objects from a database that are considered to be the closest to a given query point. Numerous techniques have been proposed in the p...