In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
Traditional databases have focused on the issue of reducing I/O cost as it is the bottleneck in many operations. As databases become increasingly accepted in areas such as Geograp...
Nagender Bandi, Chengyu Sun, Amr El Abbadi, Divyak...
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
As high-end computer systems present users with rapidly increasing numbers of processors, possibly also incorporating attached co-processors, programmers are increasingly challeng...
Aniruddha G. Shet, Wael R. Elwasif, Robert J. Harr...
The Gauss map projects surface normals to a unit sphere, providing a powerful visualization of the geometry of a graphical object. It can be used to predict visual events caused b...
Bradley C. Lowekamp, Penny Rheingans, Terry S. Yoo