Providing scalable database services is an essential requirement for extending many existing applications of the Cloud platform. Due to the diversity of applications, database ser...
Jinbao Wang, Sai Wu, Hong Gao, Jianzhong Li, Beng ...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
Data availability, collection and storage have increased dramatically in recent years, raising new technological and algorithmic challenges for database design and data management...
Abstract. Shared counters are the key to solving a variety of coordination problems on multiprocessor machines, such as barrier synchronization and index distribution. It is desire...
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...