The MapReduce distributed programming framework has become popular, despite evidence that current implementations are inefficient, requiring far more hardware than a traditional r...
Eaman Jahani, Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher R&...
Enterprises may have multiple database systems spread across the organization for redundancy or for serving different applications. In such systems, query workloads can be distrib...
This paper proposes a content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) framework using dynamically optimized features from multiple regions of medical images. These regional features...
Wei Xiong, Bo Qiu, Qi Tian, Changsheng Xu, Sim Hen...
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
: The paper is concerned with the effective and efficient processing of spatiotemporal selection queries under varying degrees of approximation. Such queries may employ operators l...