Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
—The adoption of portable wireless devices is rapidly rising. The demand for efficient communication protocols amongst these devices is pressing. In this paper, we present a con...
Abstract. Data sets in large applications are often too massive to t completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input output communication or I O between ...
Data is routinely created, disseminated, and processed in distributed systems that span multiple administrative domains. To maintain accountability while the data is transformed b...
Background: Extensive and automated data integration in bioinformatics facilitates the construction of large, complex biological networks. However, the challenge lies in the inter...