The conflict between resource consumption and query performance in the data mining context often has no satisfactory solution. This not only stands in sharp contrast to the need of...
Matthias Gimbel, Michael Klein, Peter C. Lockemann
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Distributed clusters like the Grid and PlanetLab enable the same statistical multiplexing efficiency gains for computing as the Internet provides for networking. One major challen...
Kevin Lai, Lars Rasmusson, Eytan Adar, Stephen Sor...
Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
This conceptual paper suggests how Politeness Theory [6] – well known in anthropological and linguistic literatures – can contribute to the study of role relations in computer...