A top-k query retrieves the k highest scoring tuples from a data set with respect to a scoring function defined on the attributes of a tuple. The efficient evaluation of top-k q...
Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Nick Koudas, Niko...
The emergence of location-aware services calls for new real-time spatio-temporal query processing algorithms that deal with large numbers of mobile objects and queries. In this de...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xiaopeng Xiong, Walid G. Aref, ...
Abstract—Despite the considerable amount of research work on the application of Gabor filters in pattern classification, their design and selection have been mostly done on a t...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical Internet infrastructure that provides name to address mapping services. In the past few years, distributed denial of service (DDoS) atta...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...