In the past decade, processor speed has become significantly faster than memory speed. Small, fast cache memories are designed to overcome this discrepancy, but they are only effe...
In this paper we explore the problems of storing and reasoning about data collected from very large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Potential worldwide deployment of WSNs f...
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
Abstract. PADS is a declarative language used to describe the syntax and semantic properties of ad hoc data sources such as financial transactions, server logs and scientific data ...
Qian Xi, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Qili...
Most operations of the relational algebra or SQL - like projection with duplicate elimination, join, ordering, group by and aggregations - are efficiently processed using a sorted...