This paper evaluates the suitability of the MapReduce model for multi-core and multi-processor systems. MapReduce was created by Google for application development on data-centers...
The family of threshold algorithm (i.e., TA) has been widely studied for efficiently computing top-k queries. TA uses a sort-merge framework that assumes data lists are pre-sorted...
Managing multiple versions of XML documents represents a critical requirement for many applications. Also, there has been much recent interest in supporting complex queries on XML ...
Shu-Yao Chien, Vassilis J. Tsotras, Carlo Zaniolo,...
The mass market of wireless devices is pushing towards service provisioning over dense Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), i.e., limited spatial regions, such as university campuses,...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Eugenio Magistr...
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method of identifying traffic conditions on surface streets given location traces collected from on-road vehicles--this requires o...