Yuri Gurevich made many varied and deep contributions to logic for computer science. Logic provides also the theoretical foundation of database systems. Hence, it is almost unavoid...
We present an automatic skew mitigation approach for userdefined MapReduce programs and present SkewTune, a system that implements this approach as a drop-in replacement for an e...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Bill Howe, Je...
Content–based image retrieval in the medical domain is an extremely hot topic in medical imaging as it promises to help better managing the large amount of medical images being ...
The identification and processing of similarities in the data play a key role in multiple application scenarios. Several types of similarity-aware operations have been studied in ...
Relational XQuery systems try to re-use mature relational data management infrastructures to create fast and scalable XML database technology. This paper describes the main featur...
Peter A. Boncz, Torsten Grust, Maurice van Keulen,...