Sparse matrix operations achieve only small fractions of peak CPU speeds because of the use of specialized, indexbased matrix representations, which degrade cache utilization by i...
As the number of digital images is growing fast and Content-based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is gaining in popularity, CBIR systems should leap towards Webscale datasets. In this paper...
Michal Batko, Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Lucchese, D...
The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
We present FlashStore, a high throughput persistent keyvalue store, that uses flash memory as a non-volatile cache between RAM and hard disk. FlashStore is designed to store the ...
The explosive increase of image data on Internet has made it an important, yet very challenging task to index and automatically annotate image data. To achieve that end, sophistic...