The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
With the amount of available text data in relational databases growing rapidly, the need for ordinary users to search such information is dramatically increasing. Even though the ...
Fang Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Abdur Chowdhu...
In collaborative indexing systems users generate a big amount of metadata by labelling web-based content. These labels are known as tags and form a shared vocabulary. In order to u...
Network security has now become one of the most important aspects in computer systems and the Internet. Apart from strong encryption, there is no definite method of truly securing...
J. Pikoulas, William J. Buchanan, Mike Mannion, K....
— A central goal of robotics and AI is to be able to deploy an agent to act autonomously in the real world over an extended period of time. To operate in the real world, autonomo...